In early 2009, Janis Krums tweeted a remarkable picture of a US Airways plane partly submerged in the Hudson River off of New York City. That image quickly went viral and helped put Krums and Twitter on the map.
At the time that image was posted, though, Twitter did not have a native photo-sharing feature so Krums used Twitpic, one of a couple photo tools that worked with Twitter. On Thursday, Twitpic announced that it will be shutting down later this month. The reason: Twitter
"A few weeks ago Twitter contacted our legal demanding that we abandon our trademark application or risk losing access to their API," Noah Everett, Twitpic's founder, wrote in a blog post announcing the shut down. "This came as a shock to us since Twitpic has been around since early 2008, and our trademark application has been in the USPTO since 2009." Read more...
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