Photobucket,
the FIM-owned photo sharing goliath that sees over 25 million unique monthly is bound to become the dominant objective photo sharing service on Twitter. The company launched quietly
TwitGoo,
a media-sharing service designed from the ground up to be Twitter-friendly, allowing users to share pictures with a few clicks (and movies are on the road).
Photobucket used to be one of the little boys, coming from nowhere in 2006 to emerge as one of the photos largest Internet provider. Much of its early growth was driven by its ability to thrive in a popular social site - in this case was MySpace, which previously did not have many options for embedding simple photo. Now the tables have been revealed as TwitPic came from an equally unknown can become the leader in photo sharing on Twitter. Traffic can still be relatively small compared to the more orthodox of photo sharing sites, but Twitter ready to become a mainstream phenomenon, media sharing is about to take off quickly. Photobucket competitor
Imageshack
has launched its own
Service
the month of February. Photobucket and now wants a piece.
TwitPic is the dominant player in this space with over 1 million users, but a man is
have problems
coping with its rapid growth - an issue that probably will become even more of a problem as Twitter becomes more mainstream. Conversely, TwitGoo is built on the same infrastructure that powers and his sister TinyPic Photobucket site, which means it should have no problem deal with a massive influx of new users.
TwitGoo other advantage is that it risks being perceived as more friendly to service marks as the start TwitPic. At this point it is not much of a problem, but as more brands begin to embrace Twitter and create their own applications that tap into service API, they're going to want to live through any media sharing feature of trust service. Photobucket and its parent company FIM have already built relationships with these brands. And the site content for screens obscenity - something that no small-time operation can be done effectively.
The service itself will be familiar to anyone who has used TwitPic or any of its competitors. Users accessing TwitGoo with their Twitter credentials and then upload an image to generate a short URL, so they can tweet directly from the web interface of the service. The site seeks to maintain the look and feel of Twitter native interface, user import backgrounds and consistent placing links where you expect them. And in the not-so-rare case of inactivity Twitter, the department has delayed for a tail, which allows desktop client API and other users of the queue for their comments when the system comes back up Twitter.
Of course, one of the things that made it so popular is that TwitPic is integrated into many Twitter clients, including choice as TweetDeck and Tweetie on the iPhone. TwitGoo very few of them, even if you hope to catch up on this front quickly and launches with a full API. The service is also active in discussions with a number of important customers Twitter, although it can not even discuss specifications. This is really where the battle will be won or lost - on Twitter, no matter how good your infrastructure to third parties unless your support for your customer service.
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