TwitPic
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Screenshot of TwitPic in November 2009
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Type of site
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Image sharing |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Noah Everett |
| Slogan(s) | Share photos on Twitter |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 1,436 (April 2014[update]) |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | January 31, 2008 |
| Current status | Online (Read-Only) |
TwitPic was a website and app that allowed users to post pictures to the Twitter microblogging service. TwitPic was often used by citizen journalists to upload and distribute pictures in near real-time as an event is taking place.
TwitPic was launched in 2008 by Noah Everett. In an interview with Mixergy, Noah Everett revealed that he had been offered a price in the range of 10 million US dollars for his company but he declined the offer. In 2011, Everett launched Heello, a service that also supports text posts and videos but is less dependent on Twitter. Twitpic's first app was released on 7 May 2012.
On September 4, 2014, Twitpic announced that it would shut down on September 25, 2014, following rapidly declining usage and trademark infringement threats by Twitter, Inc., threatening to revoke its access to the service's APIs if they do not withdraw their filings to trademark "Twitpic". However, shortly afterward on September 18, 2014, TwitPic announced that it would not shut down, as it had been acquired by an unspecified company. TwitPic followed up on October 16, 2014 with an update to their original announcement, stating that they could not reach an agreement, and were going to follow through with their shutdown on October 25, 2014. On October 25, 2014, Twitpic announced that they had reached an agreement with Twitter to give them the Twitpic domain and photo archive.
TwitPic could be used independently of Twitter as an image hosting website similar to Flickr. However, several characteristics made this site a companion for Twitter:
Anyone with a Twitter account was eligible to post pictures on the site. As of May 2011[update], Twitpic altered their terms of use, allowing them to distribute the photographs people have uploaded to their "Affiliates". However, Twitpic refused to state who these affiliates may be and what they gain by distributing the pictures. This triggered a public inquiry by users over the possibility of Twitpic publishing user content without compensation. As a result, people began boycotting Twitpic and removing all of their images. Twitpic addressed these concerns in a blog post, claiming that the changes in the terms had been misinterpreted.
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