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Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Leslie S. — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:50:11 -0000

Yaya! Working now.

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Leslie S. — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:27:22 -0000

This is the error that I receive: Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2 Server at www.tweetphoto.com Port 80

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Leslie — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:25:12 -0000

I will have to use TwitPic for now since the TweetPhoto site seems to be down.

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Mathys — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:05:00 -0000

Pete, in some listings and yes originally when we launched, but if you compare this to the amount of news If sent you since. We relaunched, added video and audio possibilities and multiple other platforms. Did some nice stuff with groups, launched the popular iPhone App.... etc. etc.

But I will keep sending in our news of course :)

Next week we'll launch our activity stream, which is really nice...
And we today launched a nice scaler, which, based on the amount of followers fires up extra Amazon Instances to handle the estimated load...

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Jean Wolfe — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:56:46 -0000

How amazing that you live in Scotland, Pete! The US is so much more dominant in social media that really is extraordinary. I am guessing you are American but maybe not!

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

mashable — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:10:08 -0000

Mathys,

We have covered you - at least 4 times. Granted, these posts are from a long while back, but the idea that we don't cover non-US companies is nonsense - I actually live pretty close to you guys, up in Scotland. :)

Best thing to do is keeping sending in news bites and eventually one will get picked up on.

http://mashable.com/2007/08...

http://mashable.com/2008/05...

http://mashable.com/2007/07...

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Arne Hulstein — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:34:25 -0000

I have to offer an alternative. I have seen it has been mentioned in the comments several times, but you should really consider www.mobypicture.com as it has it all and more. And I have used it for almost two years now. It's great.

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Mathys — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:17:21 -0000

Really funny to see this review. We always send our press releases and new features to Mashable, but never get any coverage. Is is because we're not a US company?
All praised features are available in Mobypicture and more. Mobypicture also allows users to send video and audio content. There's geolocation and geofencing for groups, event, tagging and we support to cross posting many platforms besides just Twitter. Plus Mobypicture was the first company to offer posting photos to Twitter.

I wish all the players the best of luck and it is great to see more competition. Easy sharing of your adventures is important!

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Rodney_Rumford — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:26:15 -0000

Actually we initially built Tweetphoto and had OAuth working solidly. Then when they had a security issue 1 week before our launch they shut it off for 2 days with no advance notice to developers. Very risky to build your site authentication on a non proven technology (tho there are some advantages). We made an executive decision to not use OAuth until it is rock solid. ;)

Cheers!
@rumford
Co-Founder of TweetPhoto

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Rodney_Rumford — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:22:49 -0000

Jennifer & Jeremy,

We are working with third party app developers so that users can send their photos thru iPhone twitter apps, BlackBerry's, desktop aps, clients, etc.

We are releasing our exhaustive API next week. Our dev team is running as fast as we can and we will let you know when we have some more announcements to make in these areas.

Cheers!

@Rumford
Co-Founder of TweetPhoto

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

cokeramirez — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:47:35 -0000

does it integrates with twitpic? as in indexing my friends twitpics and showing them on my tweetphoto stream?

If they integrate with twitpic, then they will do the transition easier and they will win the war with their new features...

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

ZK @ Web Marketing Tips — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:18:08 -0000

The beauty of TweetPhoto, is that all of these goodies are easily accessible and discoverable from your dashboard view of photos hosted on the site. Tabs across the top navigation make it easy to view your photos, return to favorites, browse friends’ photos, and check out the public stream.
Can It Beat The Competition?
In the Twitter photo space there’s also Pix.im, yFrog and Twixtr, neither of which have managed to steal any thunder from TwitPic.

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Marc Handelman — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:38:00 -0000

Two criticisms: HTTPS (tunneled) login to twitter via the site is not available by default. Furthermore, they should also implement a tunneled connection for their own sign up and sign in process. They would be doing their (Twitter) users a great service by implementing a secure login method.

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

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Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Mike — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:16:05 -0000

I logged on to try it out earlier today and still haven't gotten it to upload a picture from my iPhone. Is the site even up and running? Not real impressed so far.

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Joe Pemberton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:07:03 -0000

Where is the Flickr integration? Seriously tired of new social media tangents, new accounts to create, new places to manage my online identity.

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Kevin Rossen — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:58:33 -0000

I can't believe ping.fm doesn't get any love for its picture posting. It's my mobile photo posting go-to service. It has its own photo sharing, ability to post to flickr, ability to post to facebook, and update twitter/facebook statuses with links to the pic! Read more about it here: http://pingfm.pbworks.com/P...

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Sumyunguy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:15:10 -0000

www.Mobypicture.com FTW!

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Anne Hutchins — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:59:00 -0000

I uploaded a photo via email with my BlackBerry. Photo never showed up on TweetPhoto, nor in my Twitter stream (unless there's some sort of really long delay and it shows up later tonight). Only manually uploading via the TweetPhoto site interface directly worked. For mobile uploads, I'm sticking with TwitPic. So, not impressed with the mobile part at all.

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

playboypaul — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:53:53 -0000

Well now there's two better options to twitpic tweetphoto and pikchur both are way easier to use than twitpic and both post to multiple services. i use pikchur but i just signed up at tweetphoto and i will be using it 4 awhile im sure

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Giles Shaxted — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:53:52 -0000

how come nobody ever mentions http://www.mobypicture.com/ ?

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Damon — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:48:10 -0000

i've been alpha testing http://picktor.com for awhile. there stuff is pretty simple and it seems they are creating some kind of cross platform sharing

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Anxuna — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:23 -0000

interesting news thanks

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Robert Basil — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:56:29 -0000

Kevin,

Wake up. Nobody offers OAuth connections to Twitter yet. If you want to complain then bitch at Twitter.

Re: TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor

Wisewinston — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:56:04 -0000

pikchur, pikchur, pickchur!! Hmm, something smells fishy. Astroturfing anyone???