Last week, we took a look at FileTwt , a file-sharing service for Twitter. After publishing that post, we heard from Bob Brinker, founder of TwitDoc , another Twitter file-sharing app. We did a couple cursory tests of his site, but were disappointed that sent files couldn’t be downloaded. We wrote Brinker with these concerns, and his response was an interesting commentary on how folks use Twitter and how apps should adapt to those user habits and patterns. “Our experience is that Twitter is for fast, real-time consumption of content, not collaboration and file sharing in the editing mode,” he wrote. “We find most of our users are focused on display-only content.” And for display-only files, you could hardly find a simpler solution. Sponsor The UI gives users an easy, clean, one-click process for choosing files to upload, writing the tweet itself, and shortening the URL. And the list of use cases for a one-step Twitter/file sharing service mashup could form a line around the block.

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