Twitter announced to the world that Twitter was going to be rolling out its very own photo-sharing service over the next few weeks.Twitter photos won’t be competing with Facebook albums because it’s organized around conversations and is relevant in the moment. Videos, however, will still be hosted by third parties.
Twitter is also putting the “smack-down” on third-party client for photo-sharing services. The company has already acquired Tweetie and re-released it as the official Twitter client on OS X. Recently, it was announced that Twitter had acquired Tweet Deck.
Twitter, developed in March of ’06 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July of that year, has gained popularity in leaps and bounds since its launch. In July of 2007 it had 400,000 tweets posted per quarter.
In only a year, this number grew to 100 million posts per quarter and now, with an estimated user base of over 200 million people worldwide, users of Twitter purportedly issue around a billion tweets every six days.
The company reports 13 billion API requests coming in every single day. Despite being censored in Iran, China, Egypt and South Korea, Twitter continues to see rapid growth and it is generally felt that this is due to the company’s commitment to keeping up with their user base and constantly striving to improve the service and its relevance to the user community.
25 commentaires:
Great post!
Question... How did you get the related articles at the bottom of your post?
Is it a widget or html you put in?
that's kinda good news.
I've really warmed up to Twitter as of late, good job Twitter, keep up the excellent progress
taken their time about it
That's awesome. I love twitter even more now :D
Hope twitter doesn't end up as another one of those super companies that acquires anything that could in any way threaten them..
Interesting... Nice post!
extreeem
About time!
So now I can tweet my butt to people I don't like?
This service would be basically an online MMS-sharing, right?
I always thought they had a native photo sharing service, twitpic?
why they didnt do that erlier?
The rich get richer.
Interesting to see how they're evolving.
We'll see how this ends up
It was about time
They're finally doing what they should have done awhile ago. And 13 billion API requests, damn!
Yay! No more yfrog, etc.! Hopefully they do this with videos eventually.
Cool stuff, but I was never really into Twitter..Still good, that they have their own service now..
isnt this what twitpic is for?
good info, but since i use twitter to read other people's tweets i probably won't use it much ..
Screw twitter.
A billion tweets in less than a week. My god...
when's this going to be implemented?
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