TwitSnaps jumps into competitive Twitter photo sharing space

by Robert Scoble on July 1, 2009

We all remember TwitPic, right? It was used to snap a picture of the airplane that crashed into the Hudson.

But there are a raft of others that are trying to get Twitterer’s to use them. These are in no particular order.

Radar.net.
Twitgoo.
Img.ly.
2tweet.
Yfrog.
Twicsy.
TweetPhoto.
Picktor.
Pikchur.
Pixim.
TwitnGo.
TwitrPix.
Brightkite.
Ourdoings. (I use this because of its strong real-time integration into FriendFeed and inclusion of location data, which I think is important when I’m using my iPhone to take pictures).
FriendFeed. (you send your photos via email to share@friendfeed.com and it uploads them to FriendFeed, which can then push them to Twitter).
Flickr, now that you can Tweet photos on its service.

Obviously there are WAY TOO MANY photo sharing services out there. I bet only three of these survive and even Flickr, after millions of photos, isn’t making huge money for its owner, Yahoo. So, the key is to be differentiated so that these services can attract an audience.

So, how is TwitSnaps trying to differentiate itself? By offering higher resolution so you can use both DSLRs as well as high resolution cell phone cameras like the new Nokia N97 that’s just coming on the market. They also, this week, are adding video which is something I’ve seen Twitvid.io do so far. In the video I shot yesterday TwitSnaps founder, Simar Sing.

Rev2.org has a good review of many of the Twitter photo sharing services. So does Mashable.

Even those professional reviews aren’t comprehensive, though. They can’t hit everyone. So, which one do you use and why? Are there any others we should check out?

UPDATE: it seems that some of these could run into Trademark issues, so expect names to change. I’ll have more to say on that later. In fact, Leo Laporte owns the trademark to the word “twit” and he’s not happy that people are using that term.

  • I'll take two seconds to shamelessly self-promote our offering (for which there aren't a ton of people) - http://chir.ps - audio sharing over twitter. We're brand new and would love your feedback!
  • David: I already bought http://tweetmic.com/ -- how does yours compare? Also, several people say that using iPhone 3Gs's new voice recorder and emailing the voice to share@friendfeed.com is better at surviving failures. I'll have to try out http://chir.ps too.
  • we're very early right now, but we'll have a great end point for mail (especially for working with the iPhone 3GS as you describe), and phone number for calling in and we're hoping to have plugins with all the major twitter clients (we're hoping to have one announcement later this week/early next)
  • H Mathpal
    But twitsnaps is different than others , like it offers more options to play with your images like watermark, magnify, crop,rotate and filter too. This is a real photo oriented application! I tried it and found it good!
  • Thanks for the Rev2 mention! Much appreciated
  • Let's not forget the best of all of them, radar.net (who by the way have an amazing community). In fact Scoble, you even did a sweet video of them awhile back when you stopped by their offices during their Flickr integration launch. (Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJksYlt_jCw )

    www.radar.net

    Thanks,
    Adam
  • Robert, where's Posterous in your list? Posterous is going after twitpic with a vengeance. They're in all the major Twitter clients now. OurDoings isn't really shooting for twitter, much more for FriendFeed: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2009-05-27
  • I didn't think of Posterous. Interesting that in searches on Google for Twitter image sharing and Tweet picture and stuff like that it didn't come up, so they need to work a bit on their Google ranking.
  • I would like the Twitter name of Mr. Singh (sp?). Does anybody know it?

    Thanks,

    Adam
  • Thanks Robert, appreciate the video interview you took of Simar...
  • Marcus
    what r ur thoughts on slr support? My feeling is that it really doesnt matter much for the typical social networks, and in context of twitter
  • I use Mobypicture.com. You can send pictures through email, iphone apps or Nokia share. They have a nice website where you can follow others. And you can push the picture to multiple sites such as flickr and facebook. Also important is how a preview is built in in twitter clients. Moby isnt't yet in tweetdeck but is in some others and in friendfeed. It's a nice complete picture sharing app.
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