Guest post by Hugh Briss from Ventibate.com

I started using Twitter a few months ago and to be honest, at first I didn’t see the point. I could see the potential for friends to use it to let each other know what they were doing but personally I wasn’t interested in reading about what my friends had for lunch or what their dog just did, I was interested in how it could help me professionally. What could it do to generate interest in my websites?

Now I will admit that my Twitter friend list is pretty sparse but then again I’m not a Twitter whore that is going to join every Twitter account they can find hoping to get those Twits to follow them back. I follow Twits that post things that interest me and I hope the people that follow me do it for the same reason. And now, I found a new reason to follow and be followed. It’s called TwitPic.

What is TwitPic? Well, it’s a really cool utility that allows anyone to upload photos either from their computer or directly from their mobile phone to their Twitter page. Signing up for TwitPic is about as simple as it can get because you just type in your Twitter user name and start uploading photos. Uploading a photo to Twitter via TwitPic from your computer takes no longer than it does to click the ‘browse’ button, find the photo on your hard drive and click ‘upload’. Uploading a photo from your mobile phone isn’t much more difficult and you simply send a text message with the photo attached and any text you want to go along with the photo you type into the subject field. The photos I uploaded appeared on my Twitter page almost instantly.

Twitter bills itself as a microblogging tool but somehow I don’t consider most of what I see on Twitter as blogging but more like boring so hopefully more people will cut down on the “I just got on the plane” noise and start using Twitter for something a little more meaningful and perhaps TwitPic will help. It would also be nice if Twitter found a way to make their website a bit more useful as well. For me the public timeline just isn’t a practical way of keeping up with what’s being posted, especially since most of it is rubbish anyway. But consider the possibilities if anytime something newsworthy happened and a Twitterer was nearby and snapped some quick cell phone pics and then posted about the incident to their Twitter page using TwitPic to upload the photos.

The more I use Twitter the more I see it’s possibilities and now that I found TwitPic those possibilities are starting to look exciting.

If you think I have interesting things to say please follow me and I’ll do the same if I feel likewise.

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