Twitpic shuts down, passes domain to twitter

Third-party twitter photo service Twitpic is shutting down today, October 25th.

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In a string of blog posts that started last month, founder Noah Everett tried to keep the service by reaching out to acquisition giants and investors, but were met with disagreements over some contract stipulations. Filing a trademark for ‘twitpic’ also met a lot of hurdles, including a recent denial of API service threat by microblogging site Twitter if he won’t give up on the name. In the end, he resorted to shutting the service down along with all the pictures in it.

He says in his last blog post that twitter will now claim and keep the domain alive, as well as all photos archived with the third-party service. Their mobile apps have now been removed from app stores and will not be supported anymore. Users may login to the site to download a copy of their uploaded photos or delete their accounts.

Twitpic started in 2007 as third-party alternative to twitter’s own photo-uploading service. It grew the following years to become one of the biggest off-site photo uploading options for the microblogging platform.

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Twitpic shuts down, passes domain to twitter

Third-party twitter photo service Twitpic is shutting down today, October 25th.

twitpic

In a string of blog posts that started last month, founder Noah Everett tried to keep the service by reaching out to acquisition giants and investors, but were met with disagreements over some contract stipulations. Filing a trademark for ‘twitpic’ also met a lot of hurdles, including a recent denial of API service threat by microblogging site Twitter if he won’t give up on the name. In the end, he resorted to shutting the service down along with all the pictures in it.

He says in his last blog post that twitter will now claim and keep the domain alive, as well as all photos archived with the third-party service. Their mobile apps have now been removed from app stores and will not be supported anymore. Users may login to the site to download a copy of their uploaded photos or delete their accounts.

Twitpic started in 2007 as third-party alternative to twitter’s own photo-uploading service. It grew the following years to become one of the biggest off-site photo uploading options for the microblogging platform.

Source: 1, 2

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Twitter now has GIF support!

Earlier today, Twitter has announced support for animated GIFs (graphic interchange format), allowing users to upload moving pictures to the social network via the desktop or via iPhone or Android app.

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If images can express things you can’t express in words, GIFs can apparently do it much better, gaining traction in Tumblr, Google Plus, Hangouts, 9GAG and a lot more sites. Try it out now!

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Twitter is testing a new profile layout

Twitter just recently changed the look and feel of their website to match their mobile apps. Now, Twitter is again planning to change it, making it look like a Google+ or a Facebook page.

From the image above, the new layout fills up the whole page rather than a vertical-only layout that we currently have. The profile picture is then situated on top-left corner of the profile with the whole header photo, much like Facebook. There is also tabs that categorizes your tweets, photos & videos, who you are following, your followers, favorite tweets and lists.

Your tweets will then be placed in a card-like layout, which is like Google+. It seems to fill up space depending on its size, whether if it is has photos or just plain text.

According to Mashable, Twitter declined to comment regarding the new-layout.

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How to hide certain Tweets/Posts from your feed

I know that most of you have already come across the news about Justin Bieber’s mugshot released by the Miami PD because of his recent arrest for DUI and drag racing. Now, if you’re as fed up as I am about seeing posts or tweets about it, then you might want to try out these tweaks to filter it from your feed.

Block, Unfriend and/or Unfollow die-hard Beliebers

It’s a quick and fool-proof solution for permanently distancing yourself from any posts from your friends that are avid Bieber fans. But although you might not share the same musical preference with the person you’re about to Unfriend/Unfollow, it’s likely that you still want to see other posts from that person, unrelated to Bieber of course, in the future.

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If that’s the case, then these two alternatives will better suit you..

Mute (Tweetdeck)

If you’re using Tweetdeck or other similar services that offers the same feature, you can choose to not see a certain user’s posts by adding them to your “Mute” list. By doing this, you’re basically filtering them from your feed without having to Unfollow them.

Similarly, the Mute option also works for “Text Contents”. This way you can still view Tweets from that user, but you’re just hiding posts that has a certain word on it (which in our case is Justin Bieber).

Here’s the step to enable Mute on Tweetdeck:

1. Click on the gear icon in the lefthand navigation menu and select Settings.
2. In the Settings window, select the Mute tab.
3. From the drop-down menu select Text Content (see picture above), and then type in the words you wish to mute (Ex. Bieber).
4. Click Mute to finish.

Silencer

In a nutshell, Silencer works similarly to the Mute option on Tweetdeck. The only major difference between the two is that Silencer also takes care of unwanted posts on your Facebook feeds.

Silencer

Setting up Silencer is very simple; just install the extension to your Google Chrome browser and select which contents you don’t want to see on your feed. The Chrome extension also works for users and hashtags both on Facebook and Twitter.

I hope these two tweaks help you to get you through the swarm of Bieber Mugshots and other contents that you don’t want to see on your feeds. I’m pretty sure that there are other nifty ways for us to block certain contents from our feeds, and if you know any, please don’t hesitate to share it on the comments field below.

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