New Delhi: Twitter is gradually moving into areas which the company had initially left open for third-party developers to exploit. A photo-sharing service, that will compete with existing services such as Twitpic and Yfrog, is reported to be the microblogging phenomenon's next big venture.
According to Techcrunch, Twitter could use the Twimg.com domain for the new service. The new image hosting service could be a new avenue for revenue to flow in to Twitter's balance sheets.
Since a built in service will have an advantage over third party applications, existing photo sharing websites that thrive on traffic directed via Twitter may find it difficult to survive in the new scheme of things.
In September 2010, Twitter had launched its own URL shortening service, t.co, bringing competition existing players such as bit.ly and tinyurl.com and recently it acquired the popular Twitter client Tweetdeck for $40 million.
Twitter has been treading on the path it had left open for third-party developers ever since it unveiled a new design for its web interface. The company is also discouraging developers from building their own clients to mimic Twitter timelines.
From being an open platform that triggered a competitive developer environment, Twitter is slowly covering all its bases.
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