Twitter Follow button:
The first and major one for bloggers is the Twitter follow button. Twitter follow button will let your reader follow you quickly. Earlier users used to be redirected to the profile page where you could follow the user, but now you can add this new twitter follow button on your blog pages and your readers can follow you directly by clicking on Twitter follow button.
You can grab the code to add Twitter follow button from this official page. Below is such a button added by me, you can now click on it to follow me on Twitter.
Twitter Photo Sharing service with Photobucket:
Till now, I have been using Twitpic as my favorite service to share photos on Twitter. Today in an official blog post Twitter announced that they will be launching an official Twitter service to share photos right from Twitter.com and other official Twitter mobile clients. This news comes out as one big blow for all major twitter photo sharing service like Twitpic, yFrog and many others. Though from a user perspective, this is going to be very handy as now you can upload photos directly from official Twitter site.
Here is an official video from Twitter regarding Twitter photo sharing service. Do notice, they have shown iPhone as an example smart phone here. Rumors are, iOS 5 might get deep twitter integration too.
Enhanced Twitter search:
Twitter has also enhanced the search feature and now when ever you will search for any hashtag, you will see images and videos as a part of search result. If you are using Mozilla Firefox, you can install this addon and after that you can directly search or open the twitter profile from address bar with shortcodes @username and search anything with #hashtag.
It’s good to see some major features added to Twitter site, even though Twitter photo sharing service disappointed some major 3rd party services. It would be better, if twitter would have acquired Twitpic service and integrated it into Twitter as an official service.
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