Twitter has been busy this week. Firstly they’ve updated their search option to include pictures and videos, as part of the results, as well as tweets. This means that if you type #search into Twitter you’ll see images from tweets that contain that hashtag as well the usual tweets.
If that description does’t quite make sense then here’s a video to explain things:
Twitter has also announced they are launching their own photo upload service to compete with Twitpic, Yfrog and all the other ones that keep appearing (the video above shows that in action too). The photo service is hosted by Photobucket.
Interestingly in the promotional video only Apple equipment is used (iPhones and MacBook Pros), which ties in with another rumour to do with Apple’s iOS 5 (to be announced next week). According to TechCrunch, the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system will involve some integration with Twitter services in order to share photos (and more if others are to be believed).
Source: Twitter blog — search+photos