Twittershare Brings File Sharing to Twitter
I love Twitter but even when it's not down it's got its limitations. Enter the API and a world of developers eager to engage with the active community of Twitter users. Twittershare is the newest truly useful development on top of Twitter; it lets you easily share files of up to 10mb in size.
Mac users can upload and post with a desktop widget, everyone can use the web interface and a cross-platform AIR app is forthcoming.
Twittershare was built by a web design shop called Phoreo, sassy church-going web developers in Indiana. When you're perusing the list of the most popular Twitter clients, you won't find others that support file transfers this large. I'll put this one in my shortlist of handy apps to remember.
There's some kinks to work out still, but none are show stoppers. The possibilities for further feature development are many but I expect Twittershare to stay simple. Just like Twitter itself - simple is often all you need.
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I find Twitter very useful
It is very interesting to see how a simple concept like Tweeter, which isn't appealing at all at first, gets more exciting everyday. There are some much little clients out there to help you in your everyday life...
I started using Twitter during a conference in January and it has been very helpful since, especially since I installed twhirl (http://www.twhirl.org/) on my computer. Since then, I have been connected to a lot of people from the conference, professionals who work the same job as me, some I never even met physically. The fact that you can link your Twitter account to any RSS feed using TwitterFeed (http://twitterfeed.com/)is amazing. I can now read fresh blog posts all the time (still warm and inviting like apple pie out of the oven).
And now you're telling me that I will be able to share files up to 10 MB... You made my day!
smells (and looks) like Pownce.com ...
very nice
http://jumpueng.blogspot.com
Stinky, think of it as like Pownce but with a large number of users and without threaded conversations - and with the downtime of Twitter. And the rich API community. But yeah, you're right, it does look a bit Powncey huh?
Thumbs down. The web version wants my Twitter username and password with no OpenID or OAuth support. Thou shall not phish or participate in the "social network anti patterns"!
http://microformats.org/wiki/social-network-anti-patterns
Todd, I totally thought about that too. But does Twitter do OpenID or oAuth? I dont' think they do. All third party apps built on the Twitter API ask for your username and password. Agreed though, the time when that simply won't be stood for by a significant number of users is near. Apparently you're there already.
Pownce Pro offers file transfers up to 100 MB for $20 per year. Seems like a better deal and a nicer user interface to me.
Todd and Marshall,
I completely agree with you. While developing Twittershare, I searched for a way to authenticate with Twitter via OpenID or oAuth, but found nothing. As a nice compromise though, you don't need to sign up for another account to use Twittershare; it's just a simple pass-through to Twitter.
If/when Twitter opens up, I'll be right behind them!
Cheers,
Scott
@ Marshall @Scott
The Twitter API supports it unofficially:
http://laughingmeme.org/2007/10/16/oauth-in-php-for-twitter/
You guys need to do your homework and talk to Alex:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/6c8669daf54550d7