Have you seen Twitxr ? Its twitter for photos

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Have you seen Twitxr ? Its twitter for photos

Sunday, February 17, 2008 5:39 PM | Social Web 2.0 Social Media Blogging Twitter Social Networking

It appears that photoblogging has made it into mainstream blogging. A new site called Twitxr launched today by FON through their FON labs division. With Twitxr you can share a moment, photo, a thought instantly with your mobile phone. One of the features I noticed right away is that Twitxr allows you automatically post items to your Twitter and Facebook profile.

While it is specially designed for the Apple iPhone, Nokia (Symbian) and Android will soon be supported.

“It looks like you can’t simply grab a photo that you’ve taken normally from the iPhone, either. You have to initiate the photo through the Twitxr application. The application automatically adds location information to your photos and updates. “ - TechCrunch

Twitxr is yet another variation of Twitter (think Jaiku, Pownce). In order to use Twitxr on your iPhone you must jailbreak (lifehacker link) your phone in order to install the Twitxr software. Twitxr is still in beta and you can sign up and give the service a try. Be sure to read the iPhone native client installation instructions.

I think though until there is support for more phones than iPhone, Twitxr is going to be more of a novelty than anything.

Comments

Posted by Robert MacEwan on 2/17/2008 9:47 PM: Reading on Nokia 770. Thanks for suggestion.
Posted by Allen on 2/17/2008 9:51 PM: Hi Robert. Glad to be of assistance. If you come back and read this, how does this site look on your mobile?
Posted by robojiannis on 2/18/2008 5:04 AM: After seeing this one, I start to believe that the social web will evolve in one big, pink bubble...
Posted by Allen on 2/18/2008 5:10 AM: Hey Robojiannis! Big Pink Bubble? You think the social web is going to pop like the dot com bubble?
Posted by robojiannis on 2/18/2008 9:15 AM: well if it continues like that, yes I do.
I don't think there will be an actual impact on the users though.
But, economically speaking, it seems incomprehendable, that all these new social sites will eternally draw the attention of the public and the market.
I think saturation is on its way and many social sites will simply lose their investments. In the end only the really good ones will remain.
Posted by Allen on 2/18/2008 9:38 AM: Good point Robojiannis. I think though that social media sites will become more "clicky" and each will reach a certain group. Of course there will be those that frequent several.
Posted by janice on 3/3/2008 5:46 AM: similar site http://www.mobicue.com, like multimedia blogging, has more features and contents