September 28th, 2010

Photos and videos may land in your Twitter stream soon

iPhone, MAC OS, by Albel.
The big story in the Twitterland this week is the rumor of the photo and video, get the Twitter website. So far you have been able to third-party services that use pictures and videos have, and many customers – including mobile Twitter applications – they could appear with a click. Well, now there is something called “Tweet Media” This is evident in some users ‘Settings’, and it looks like a test of online media for the Web Twitter.

Mashable spotted and reported on this option before it disappeared — apparently, the test is over for the moment — and got a quote from Twitter that confirms the possibility of inline photos and vids. “We’re constantly exploring features and settings. What you saw was a small test of a potential consumption setting for inline media. We show inline media on our own iPhone and Android apps,” said a Twitter rep.

What would that mean to Twitpic, YFrog, and other Twitter photo services? Well, they’d definitely still be useful for hosting your photos, unless Twitter starts offering storage space (unlikely, especially with video). The best case scenario is that Twitter will do what many third-party Twitter clients do, and autodetect links that lead to a photo or video on these services.

Hey, Android users! Twitter for Android now a small but useful update: Auto Refresh. No more jamming on the refresh button every 3 minutes. Who am I kidding? I know you anyway but at least you are not harder. The update fixes a bug in the search for people, then the connection when you see problems, others users.Seesmic Web also some exciting new updates received, including messages from Office. Our own Lee Mathews was a user of Seesmic, and has the lean to what in the new version.

Absolutely zero users in a new survey said they’d be willing to pay for Twitter. The Annenberg School of Communication at USC conducted the study that found that people would rather be exposed to ads on Twitter than pay money for the service. Would you ever pay for Twitter? Is there any added “pro” feature they could introduce that would be worth money to you?

If you want to know how the country is feeling, all it takes is a look at Twitter. An impressive new project called Pulse of the Nation (from Harvard University) displays a map of the US, with a color-coded evaluation of regional moods based on the language in tweets. The map is stretched and pinched based on tweet volume, so it doesn’t look like the US maps you’re used to seeing. Still, it’s a very interesting proof-of-concept, and I would love to see a real-time version of it. Right now, you can check out a big PDF and a time-lapse video.

Hey, thanks for reading another Twitter Tuesday! Before I sign off, I’d like to throw a question out to all our Twitter-obsessed readers: which Twitter clients are you guys using regularly? I’d love to know, so I can focus the column on the apps you care about most.

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