Is enjoying the colours of autumn (tho’ today’s temp is summer! :))
Twitter may be no more, but twitpic still lives! Photos I posted on twitpic back in 2008 still exist. To see what I mean, check out the link to the photo above with my accompanying tweet that went with it.
Back then, you didn’t have the ability to post photos directly on twitter, so new services like twitpics allowed you to do that. Of course that all died off as twitter grew and added photo posting into their core features.
What’s amazing to me is
- the photos that twitpics still exist online
- that anyone can see any photo posted by anyone that used that service
- that you can just make up a URL to see a photo. For example, the URL of the above photo is https://twitpic.com/g26i but if you enter https://twitpic.com/g262 or https://twitpic.com/g26e or https://twitpic.com/1234 you will see totally random photos.
- At one point I had some code to crawl the URLs from 0000 to see if I could just find my own, and I did find some, but at some point I gave up
Anyway, fascinating to me that this archive still exists. Long after Elon ruined twitter and turned it into X. So check it out while you can.
P.S. For more context on twitpic, I wrote about it in 2008 here and here. And here’s one more from me: Saturday coffee at Indigo at yonge and Eglinton, Toronto
All taken from a Blackberry. 🙂
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