TwitPic has always been the go to application for sharing photos on twitter but a new service, TweetPhoto, aims to changes that. If you’ve ever used TwitPic you know it does what it aims to do, share photos, which is nice but I’ve always felt wanting for more. The feature set is downright sparse compared to TweetPhoto and you’ll see the difference right off the bat. In addition to signing in with your Twitter user name there are photo and meta-data filters, photo favorites, friends photos, customizable widgets, expansive API and a seamless integration into Twitter and Facebook Connect. In fact it not only is probably the most complete way to share photos on Twitter, you can share them on Facebook just as easily. TwitPic has a over a year head start on TweetPhoto but if nothing else I’m sure we’ll start to see more capabilities from both and the user wins either way.
TweetPhoto greatly improves the user experience for those people who share photos on Twitter through the service. The capabilities include:
- Upload photos via mobile phone and the web to TweetPhoto; share through Twitter and Facebook
- Favorite the photos you like
- See who views your photos; favorites your photos, comments on your photos
- Track how many people looked at a photo
- Automatically geo-tag photos sent from a GPS enabled phone
- Use an integrated URL shortening service, http://pic.gd Filter photos by Twitter or Facebook friends
- Self-moderate comments
- Search tagged photos throughout the site
- Subscribe to RSS feeds by user or tags
Twitter users can get started at http://tweetphoto.com by entering their Twitter username and password.
