The news - still preliminary - that Twitter is launching its own photo sharing service should give people pause for thought. On the one hand, as Dave Winer comments, it makes Twitter important all over again. Because it would connect photos with Twitter identities, long-time Flickr users will be tempted to jump. It also offers a challenge to Facebook, which is currently the world's largest photo sharing site. But it should also give pause on the other side of the ledger. Services like TwitPic would be hurt by this development. "Twitter has previously moved onto turf on which third-party developers had already built Twitter-related businesses." And it "explicitly told developers to stop making their own clients earlier this year." This is where coding for proprietary platforms will lead you.
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