On the afternoon of August 16, Rift game card, Beijing News reported that Twitter officially opened a new account-sharing service to third-party developers on Monday. The service is also expected to support video sharing in the future.
Twitter started this initiative two months ago with the launch of a photo-sharing service for Xbox Live points users. Initially, it was only available to some users, including Diablo III Beta Key holders. After a week, the service was introduced to all users. On Monday, Twitter announced through its official developer blog the launch of a Photo Upload API (Application Programming Interface) to facilitate third-party developers in using this feature.
Although many third-party Twitter services already offer photo upload features, they usually accomplish this through their own proxies or in collaboration with TwitPic or yFrog. The advantage of this new API is that developers can now upload and store pictures directly via Twitter's official servers.
However, Twitter declined to comment further in the article.
To use this API, developers must comply with a series of Twitter provisions, such as using the pic.twitter.com/SLUG website instead of t.co/SLUG. Additionally, GIFs are not supported for activating images.
Twitter also mentioned that the photo-sharing service will soon be integrated into the mobile client, though no specific timeline has been provided. Industry insiders believe that this feature will be released before the launch of Apple iOS 5, as this system requires the use of Twitter photo sharing.
(Twitter began to support the picture upload feature. Some external advisors launched the photo service for certain users.)
(Note: The original text seems to have some grammatical inconsistencies and mixed phrases, which were clarified as much as possible in the translation.)