Twitpic

Twitpic is a great easy way to share photo via Twitter. A lot of twitter clients including desktop and iPhone/any mobile client support uploading pictures to twitpic. It has gained the largest market share of any twitter centric photo sharing site (according to TC)

Why am I talking about Twitpic? Well I thought it would be cool visualize all the photos being shared on twitter, in realtime. To that end I’m polling twitter search every 3 secs for the term “twitpic” and publishing them to a xmpp pubsub server. I built a super simple web interface that subscribes to that pubsub node, and displays new images as soon as they are received. (Technically there is a 5sec delay to let the image load, which makes the display run smoother.) That is the largest delay, 5secs. Once anyone uploads a picture to twitpic there is <10sec delay.

I also include retweets of twitpics, so yes you will see duplicates, sometimes many on the same page, if that image is very popular, and being commented on / retweeted via twitpic. (look out for Miley Cyrus pictures taking over at times)

Check it out, let me know what you think. I’m thinking about either adding a feature to reply via twitter to the pictures, or to discuss them via group chat on the web page itself. Suggestions?

http://twitpic.flarify.com

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