San Diego, CA-based TweetPhoto has grown to become a major player in the Twitter platform based picture sharing startup space. Now it looks like the TweetPhoto is expanding their picture sharing service to Foursquare, our pick for 2010 social media breakout star.
By using TweetPhoto’s new API, developers using the Foursquare platform can add picture functionality to the site or application. Not only is this a big expansion opportunity for TweetPhoto, but its a pretty significant “proof-point” in Foursquare’s mission to become a platform enabling location-based service company – following their Twitter roots.
The new TweetPhoto API is targeting developers whose applications use both Twitter and Foursquare. Since Foursquare currently doesn’t allow pictures to be placed on its site or its “check-in” stream, TweetPhoto’s idea is to leverage Twitter’s service to send pictures out after location information is filtered by Foursquare check-in’s.
The net is the TweetPhoto API will enable developers to query photo’s by Foursquare venue. This capability, as you can imagine, has some really cool applications. Think of a venue-based photo-log of all the Foursquare visitors, plus the venue marketing opportunities this new feature will bring.
“We are doing what TwitPic did for Twitter for FourSquare while also continuing to take market share away from TwitPic and yFrog,” TweetPhoto co-founder Sean Callahan told TechCrunch of this move. In the future, TweetPhoto plans to allow users to login to their service using their Foursquare credentials as well.
Developers interested in learning more can check out TweetPhoto’s documentation
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Twitter has demonstrated a remarkable capability of building a developer ecosystem around its platform, and now it looks as if Foursquare is heading down the same path.
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