Twitter and Instagram Compete for Your Photos



Twitter and Instagram are getting ready to offer you a few more places to post your photos. Right now, there aren’t a whole lot of details that have been released. Those of you who feel that you don’t have enough of places to post your photos will probably embrace at least one of these upcoming options.

Instagram has announced that it will be rolling out Instagram profiles. This is in response to the request Instagram had from users who wanted there to be an Instagram interface that was on the web. Your web profile will feature a selection of the photos that you recently shared through Instagram. You can put in a profile photo and create a bio.

People can follow your profile, and you can follow the profiles of other Instagram users. Anyone can comment on the photos or “like” them. I suppose it was only a matter of time until Facebook, which bought Instagram, would figure out a way to get its iconic “like” button in there somewhere. You will not be able to upload Instagram photos through your Instagram profile. My best guess is this is to prevent users from opting out of using the Instragram app in favor of the profile.

According to the New York Times, Twitter is going to be adding photo filters to what it can offer users. The purpose, of course, would be to compete with Instagram (and all the ways it lets you alter and play with a photo).

Although Twitter has made a deal with Photobucket in the past, it seems that Twitter is now storing images on its own servers. It appears that Twitter is quietly working on building its own photo filters that will let you alter your photos like you can with Instagram, (only without actually using Instagram to do it). Like Instagram, the filters from Twitter will be accessible through its mobile app. No word yet on when the filters will be ready.

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