Snipt.org: Easily Share Code on Twitter
Sending a piece of source code for troubleshooting to one of your friends or colleagues can be a hassle. Snipt.org provides a new solution for this. Just copy and paste your code into Snipt, tell it what programming language it is in, and Snipt will give you a short URL for your code snippet to hand out on Twitter. The developers want you to think of it as "twitpic, but for code and long text," though it is really a lot more flexible than that.
Besides giving you a short URL, the most important feature of Snipt.org is that it preserves the formatting of your code and also colors it according to your specified programming language for easier reading. Snipt.org understands over 125 different programming and scripting languages, ranging from C++ and Perl, to LaTeX and Python.
Overall, this looks like a very versatile tools for programmers and everybody else who wants to easily share short snippets of code.
Snipt.net
Of course, there is also snipt.net, which is not related to snipt.org at all (at least as far as we can tell), and which focuses on creating a repository of code snippets. Snipt.net does not feature any Twitter integration, though, according to the snipt.net team's latest Twitter updates, they are thinking about this.
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Great, so its a pastebin with no features? I'll stick to GIST.
This is actually quite cool. Why has not anyone thought of this before? A majority of twitter users are code geek in one form or another.
Nick from Lion Burger here, the folks behind http://snipt.net. Thanks for the props to our little joint.
We're quite surprised at the response to http://snipt.org, and it certainly got us thinking about some possible Twitter integration for Snipt.net.
We usually launch features or improvements every few days, so stay tuned!
Nick
This was already there.
Nopaste.com
(only for 15 most commonly used languages tho)
Snipt.org is MUCH different than all the above mentioned services in these ways:
1. NO signup required. Text only, no file uploads.
2. Simple interface, share snipts quickly and easily.
3. HUGE language support, more than any other service to date... optional line #'s