Archive for July, 2010

Twitter dangled a piece of cheese in front of some social media professionals recently with a setting called “Tweet Media.” It involves tools that will allow users to embed photos and videos into there Twitter messages.

On some accounts on July 26th, there were account settings options for the user to click that enabled Tweet Media.

Here’s what it looked like:

As of the writing of this article Twitter has removed the options from several of the accounts that temporarily had it. When Mashable Media asked Twitter about the option, they replied:

We’re constantly exploring features and settings. What you saw was a small test of a potential consumption setting for inline media. We show inline media on our own iPhone and Android apps.

Keep an eye out for some significant changes in Twitter’s presentation methods.

Twitter keeps growing and they are adding another service. Today they begin rolling out Twitter Location. Users will be given the option to give some information on their location. How specific will be the call of the Twitterer.

This service is expected to be worked in over the next week. Users in 65 countries will start to see the “Add your location” link below the Tweet box.

For those of you using Foursquare and Gowalla, Twitter has worked with both services to incorporate the location features with those services. And application programmers will be able to integrate the service into their applications. So be on the lookout for some neat apps that will soon be available.