According to Twitter PR rep Carolyn Penner, Twitter has started rolling out its new photo feature to a small subset of users outside of employees. Our own@alexia is one of the lucky users to get the service first. The feature was live for employees as of last week, but it is hitting the rest of Twitter users starting this week.
As we reported last week, the new feature allows users to upload photos, which show up in your timeline. The camera feature is located next to “add your location” in the Tweet UI (see screenshot below) and you’ll be able to upload a photo as you Tweet on Twitter.com and eventually via mobile clients.
Twitter is partnering with Photobucket to host these photos but you don’t need a Photobucket account to use it. And photos are only visible on Twitter, and not on Photobucket’s image sharing site. Beneath every photo is a “powered by Photobucket” note. And if you click on a photo in a user’s stream who you are not following, Twitter will show you this message, “This Tweet is from someone you’re not following. The media they’re mentioning could be anything, even something you might find offensive” with an option to display the photo. You can also choose to always display photos from users who you are not following or following. You can also turn off auto-display in Settings as well.
