A new Twitter-inspired service has been launched on which you can post photos. It’s called Twitxr and you can upload photos as well as 140 character tweets with the click of a button to this service. As well as to Flickr and Facebook.
Other features are almost identical to Twitter; you can choose to input the 140 character line or simply upload a picture and share it with your friends. The best thing perhaps is that the whole thing comes with RSS feeds. One downside is that you can’t migrate your Twitter account, including your friends and followers here. But that is offset by the ease of using the service; you can upload photos by email, mobile phone as well as from the web.
1 Comment to “Twitter, The Photo Version, Launched”
February 27, 2008
Correction! You can upload by iPhone, but not just any old mobile phone. I tried to send some pics of the Computation + Journalism symposium from my RAZR via MMS to Twitxr, and they never showed up. I shot an email to Twitxr support and got in reply, “the system doesn’t work with MMS. you have to send a plain text e-mail to your custom address. Type your location on the subject (for example San Francisco, CA), attach the picture taken with your mobile phone and then type the text of the post in the body.”
Great, so, you can take a pic with your phone, but you still have to wait till you get home to your computer (if you don’t have it), send the MMS to your regular email, and then forward it to Twitxr.
Not real useful for the field.