The application includes fairly standard functions you’d expect to find on a Twitter mobile app, like the ability to view your friend’s updates, see replies, and send and receive direct messages. Additionally – and this is where it starts to make sense for ImageShack – there is the built-in ability to upload photos to the service’s TwitPic competitor – Yfrog.
What’s clearly happening here is that the photo sharing sites – who built much of their early popularity on MySpace - are realizing that Twitter is the next big medium for sharing images, so they’re moving quickly to establish a presence. PhotoBucket recently launched TwitGoo to get its own hat in the ring, while TwitPic – first to the punch – currently has the lead when it comes to Twitter photo sharing.
Interestingly, Yfrog is already included in a number of iPhone applications for Twitter, including Tweetie and Twittelator. By offering up a client of their own – especially an open source one that will lead to more apps that utilize Yfrog – ImageShack can keep the momentum going and win market share in the new frontier of photo sharing: Twitter.
Twitter Mobile Resources