Twitpic – Tweeting Photographs Of Just About Anything
The Internet has become a very popular way of disseminating photographs of yourself, your family, your pets, your house or anything else you deem appropriate. Photo hosting sites and photo streaming sites have really taken off as people look for a place to keep pictures which they can then link to – and hotlink, which allows them to show photographs on forums – and show them to everyone. One step on from that, Twitpic allows you to place a link to your photo in Twitter, simply by uploading it to the service.
The ease of use that Twitpic offers is undoubtedly helpful for people who are not especially at home with technology, but can also lead to the tweeting of photographs which, given further consideration, might have been best left untweeted. This has been the case for public figures such as Meghan McCain, daughter of former Presidential candidate and herself a noted writer, who posted a photo of herself in a low cut top brandishing a biography of Andy Warhol and was bombarded with remarks about her breasts – and considered leaving Twitter as a result.
If you are having doubts about posting something on Twitter or Twitpic, then you should not do it. Doubts are generally momentary and if you put them to rest then you can go ahead and do as you wish – but posting a picture or a potentially inflammatory tweet can last forever and is likely to be remembered by people even if purely for their own malicious intent.