TwitPic: Twitter extensions accelerating

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Yep….here’s another Twitter extension that makes it really simple to add photos to your Twitter stream called TwitPic.

Go there, login in with your Twitter credentials, and upload a photo or send one from your phone. You can see one I just took with my iPhone (I’m at the Eden Prairie library) and emailed it to my ‘special’ email address with the subject line, "Eden Prairie library, bits vs. atoms." I used this subject since I’d just sent a tweet that, yet again, I was struck by the huge numbers of people here on the computers (viewing bits) while few of us are here for the atoms (books).

Though moblogging has been around for awhile and adding a photo to blogs and other services has been relatively easy for some time, there’s something about the off-handed tossing up a photo as a tweet that makes the immediacy of it compelling.

For more of how Twitter is turning into a platform and to see other extensions, look here, here or even get in touch with your inner Twitter.

Twubble: Is it a weally, weally good service?

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Joking around and poking fun isn’t my style — especially when someone has launched something that is trying to make a good service (Twitter) better — but I couldn’t help myself when I saw a link to the new Twitter extension Twubble and went to it half expecting to be greeted by Elmer Fudd (also, what is this world coming to when even cartoon characters have their own Wikipedia page?).

Twubble is actually pretty cool. I was already logged in to Twitter and it went out to find (and recommend) others whom my friends are following. It actually does make Twitter more useful and I have already added some people my friends are following.

Enjoy a bit more Elmer Fudd reference: