Twitter Forays Into Visual Social Media: Iconic Microblogger Planning to Introduce Live Video-Tweeting, According to Reports
Twitter's founders are planning to announce an upgrade that will allow users to upload brief video snippets to their Twitter profiles from their mobile phones, laptops and other gadgets. Fearing that the microblogger may be falling out of fashion — after all, Lily Allen and Miley Cyrus have both snubbed the site by closing their Twitter accounts recently — company founders reportedly hope that the addition of live video-tweeting will help boost Twitter's prominence.
Third party sites Twiddeo and Tweetube already allow Twitter users to post video tweets but only by creating links to their sites, the UK's Telegraph reports. Both Twideo and Tweetube have so far failed to gain as much popularity as similar external service Twitpic, reports Telegraph writer Amy Willis. Twitter has 54 million users around the world every month.
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