Ok, so it's fair to say that Twitter has featured quite prominently on this blog in recent months, just as it has pretty much everywhere where people are talking about interesting new stuff about the web. There have been times of serious excitement about Twitter's achievements - and also the odd 'what's-the-point-of-all-this?' type post. Even Techcrunch has recently cheekily apologised for the extent of its Twitter coverage, but then continued to discuss it further, again and again and again...
Well, we're doing the same right here, right now - and we're not even apologising for it ;) - the reason being that a recent Twitter development is rapidly becoming quite an exciting prospect, even for the Twitter-sceptics among us.
The reason for all this is Twitdoc - quite simply a tool which turns Twitter into a massively useful and quick file-sharing platform. Not actually developed by Twitter but instead one of many independent third-party projects springing up to tap into the potential of web 2.0's currently favourite darling, Twitdoc is a service which lets you share files using your twitter account. It is not the only one, but is at the moment probably the best - allowing for a number of different file formats (including pdfs, word docs) with plans to add more in the future.
The whole process takes about 10 seconds to share a file - and you don't even need to sign up to Twitdoc to get started. Simply visit http://www.twitdoc.com, enter your twitter account details, locate the file you'd like to share, attach any accompanying text, and hey presto! job done.
So basically even if the prospect of reading hourly updates about this or that celebrity's latest thoughts on Louis Vitton toilet paper or the pros and cons of selling wedding photo rights to either Heat or Hello magazine doesn't turn you on, then twitter could still win you over with the prospect of an effortless, secure and efficient file-sharing service. No doubt Twitdoc and its rivals will improve in coming weeks with added file formats and new features, but even now there is enough there to convince even the most hardened anti-tweety...
Dejan Levi
