[Wall Street Journal] Twitter has overhauled its service and is offering direct media uploads in tweets and automatic link shortening, and a new search engine that includes photos and video searching.The features will be rolled out gradually and threaten not only the popularity of third party providers offering link shortening such as bit.ly, and photo uploads such as twitpic.com, but also the habit of searching for media with traditional search engines.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/twitter-unveils-automatic-link-shortening/story-e6frg996-1226072300293
Twitter unveils automatic link shortening, powerful media search engine
Twitter has overhauled its service and is offering direct media uploads in tweets and automatic link shortening, and a new search engine that includes photos and video searching.