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Twitpic Is Shutting Down, Blames Twitter
In early 2009, Janis Krums tweeted a remarkable picture of a US Airways plane partly submerged in the Hudson River off of New York City. That image quickly went viral and helped put Krums and Twitter on the map. At the time that image was posted, though, Twitter did not have a native photo-sharing feature so Krums used Twitpic, one of a couple photo tools that worked with Twitter. On Thursday, Twitpic announced that it will be shutting down later this month. The reason: Twitter.
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To be fair, they were becoming quite irrelevant.
What did TwitPic offer that regular default Twitter pics didn't?
Why not just change the name and re-brand. Last I checked it's still a very popular service among the "twitter-verse"...
yeah there has to be something going on behind the scenes... would they just give up this easily?