"Oh Twitter. Time was when you championed the written word. And more than that; the mot juste, as the French say. Papa Hemingway would have been proud of your focus on 140 carefully chosen characters.
Not any more. Not now your stock price is tanking. Now it’s photos you are pinning your hopes on – since photo-sharing continues eating the digital services world.
Facebook is predominantly a place where people share photos now. Instagram always was a photo-focused community. Users of the messaging service WhatsApp, which Facebook also now owns, share more than 600 million photos per day.
And now Twitter is now sending email blasts to its users with the subject line urge to: “Share your best photos on Twitter” — and describing its offering in broad-brush strokes as being “beyond words”.
It’s not that the ability to share photos on Twitter is new of course, but this initiative is about educating users what Twitter is for. So basically Twitter is shouting out that it’s FOR all the SAME THINGS you’re already doing on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.
Emphasizing its photo sharing (and messaging) abilities is one way for Twitter to try to ignite a more mainstream user-base, since picture-based communications are such an established digital habit now. Twitter forcing media previews on web users last October was an earlier step in this strategy".
Source: TechCrunch
