Twitter and images have taken a few steps over the past few months. The first step was when Twitter made it possible to view linked images and videos while still being inside the Twitter site. Keep reading about interactive Twitter images after the jump.
With this success now comes the ability to add interactive Twitter images inside your Tweets with special thanks to ThingLink which the process is powered by. ThingLink is a start-up that now when joined up with Twitter lets users send images with several links to other images inside of Twitter content.
This ability is making more information much more accessible which in turn is making a much more efficient Twitterverse. To understand what I mean let’s look at a sports franchise: the Houston Rockets for example. With ThinkLink, I can now check out a players tweet which may include a link to the box score which is nothing new, but then I could also see highlights, images posted on Pinterest, Facebook, etc. all from the one Tweet. Something that previously wasn’t possible. It’s a concept in where a single image becomes a platform or gateway for more links, images, and video.
The Twitter/ThinkLink partnership could really jump up ThinkLinks value if markets start looking into using ThinkLink more and more to the point where everyone is doing it.