Part of the beauty of Twitter is its simplicity. The streamlined
platform has little in the line of multimedia
bells and whistles, making it a dependable and stable environment,
unaffected by the animated images and quizzes all too frustratingly common on social
networks such as MySpace
and Facebook.
That said, multimedia sharing is still very important - especially if
you’re thinking about better utilising multimedia
for your personal branding. Sharing
videos on Twitter is possible and rather easy, but it’s finding your
preferred method which can be tricky.
You could upload your video to YouTube
and then shorten the URL to fit into Twitter’s 140 character requirement. Try TinyURL to allow for more space for
those oh-so-important keywords. YouTube does have a Twitter share function, but
it basically just gives you the direct
URL to copy and paste to Twitter.
If you’d prefer, you could use a dedicated Twitter video service. Much
like the popular TwitPic, TwitC is one
such platform, but still houses all files externally, meaning it doesn’t drain
Twitter’s resources or clutter-up the
feed.
Without the need for an additional account (just login with your Twitter
details), TwitC is an ideal solution to the microblogging platform’s multimedia concerns. You’re free to upload
your own videos (in any of the following formats; QuickTime, WMV, MPEG2 and
MPEG4, AVI, H.264, 3GPP, Flash and SWF, Real and DivX) and can also upload
pictures, audio files or even videos from YouTube or other sites.
Not only can you categorise your media with keywords, tags and captions
– you are also able to organise and archive your videos, photos and audio
files for later use. Plus, you can keep track of how many times your files
have been viewed and the user commentary below.
Have fun trying it out!
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