Twitter for Photos - Third-party Services to Make Use of

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Wondering to how make use of Twitter for Photos? Twitter does not make you able to share media, but there are other sites that allow you to do so. These image sharing services give you the capability to attach photos and maybe even other media types to your tweets.

The sites that provide image sharing services for Twitter have varying features and may give several different method for sharing images. For example, Twitpic makes you able to share images on Twitter through email or SMS while Twitgoo does not provide such a way.

Now, you are probably wondering what these twitter image sharing services to make you able to use Twitter for Photos. Below I will list some of the third-party services and a short description on each to help you decide which ones would best suit your needs. Your account in twitter is what you will most likely use to log in to most, if not all these image sharing services which make them very much convenient to use. There is no need to you for register again!

- Twitpic - first on this list is the largest and considered the most popular image sharing service for Twitter, which is partly due to the great attention it got from its displaying the first pictures on the plane crash in Hudson River on their site. You can use your phone, Twitpic's site, or though Twitpic's API you could use for your own application. If you do not understand what an API is, then do not worry about it because that would mean you have no use of it.

- Twicli - this is not just a photo sharing service, but a media sharing service that has support for high-quality video and audio attachments! It also has a tagging feature which is patterned after Facebook's which allows you to tag your friends and followers on the photos and videos you upload. It also makes you view photos in all sizes available and has great audio and video quality. It is truly an impressive third-party service which I find to be my favorite so far! One more thing, they welcome user input and suggestions over what features users would want added to Twicli and they actually take the time to see what majority of users want and act on it- a simple yet effective way to keep users loyal and know what to add and improve on their service.

- Pikchur - is an image sharing service. It allows you to upload photos from your mobile phone/device. What makes this stand out from other photo sharing services, is that it enables you to share photos to multiple social networking sites with just one upload! Very convenient and ideal for all those people having accounts in many social networking sites. Pikchur enables you to post photos at twitter, Facebook, flicker, brightkite, jaiku, tumblr, friendfeed, Plurk, identi.ca and koornk.

- Yfrog - this service allows you to share videos and photos with a very simplistic, user-friendly interface. This is ideal for those who just want the bare essentials for photo or video sharing and immediately get to start doing these things pronto!

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