Twitter’s on a tear lately. And, while not all new (Facebook-esque) updates do much for me, their recently integrated native photo hosting (via Photobucket) is a win. As is the brand spanking new photo gallery feature, released to my account just this AM.
Within a user’s profile page, like mine, towards the upper right you’ll now find a filmstrip of recently uploaded photos (assuming you’re logged into Twitter). From there, you’d click on “view all” to be presented with a photo gallery (here’s my grid) of the person’s 100 most recent uploads. Each photo thumbnail can be clicked to launch a larger image and the corresponding tweet. And what makes this killer, for Twitter users, is how it aggregates uploaded photos from multiple hosting services – the aforementioned Twitter, Photobucket, yFrog, Instagram, and my general go to of TwitPic.
The presentation is relatively simplistic. But that’s always been an appeal of Twitter. Having said that, I’d prefer some gallery theme variation/options and I quite appreciate TwitPic’s counter that Twitter hasn’t implemented with their own photo hosting or these new image galleries.
“Within a user’s profile page, like mine, towards the upper right you’ll now find a filmstrip…”
Other than your screenshot here, I’ll never find it. Ah, the marvels of the modern world I miss out on by web surfing sans-JavaScript.
(I wonder just how few the numbers are of folks like me who only follow twit feeds via RSS?)
Not many… I tried it for awhile, including sticking my personal RSS feed in the sidebar, but it was unreliable. Perhaps it’s better now. Either way, I think most people replace RSS with Twitter rather than reading Twitter via RSS.
“Either way, I think most people replace RSS with Twitter rather than reading Twitter via RSS.”
No doubt. I know my tribe is small, I just wonder how small. I wonder if we’re more like Liechtenstein or Estonia.
(FWIW, the no-JS front has been interesting. Twitter tried to completely cut us off for a while, so I stopped reading Twitter. Then they relented, so now I read Twitter again.)
This reminds me, has anyone else tried Scopy app on iDevices? I love how it pulls all photos from users I follow on Twitter. I’m bad at keeping up with Twitter (and Facebook for that matter), but I still find time to run Scopy a few times a day to pull in pics.