Ground Report

In an unsourced article published in Britian’s Telegraph, Twitter Founders were claimed to have been discussing an upgrade which would allow users to upload short video clips to their profiles from their mobile phone and other devices.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone emailed in response to inquiries made by Mashable.com basically saying there will be no video upgrades to the social networking site. “140 characters of text including spaces. You know the drill!”, said Stone.

Users are tweeting about the upgrade rumors discovered earlier today. Some still have yet to realize the rumors are false.

1. lonifasiko Falsa alarma, Twitter y video NO serán “amiguetes” RT @mashable “Twitter: Nope, We’re Not Doing Video Tweets” http://bit.ly/2MUiDK 11 Oct 2009 from Echofon
2. CharlestonItchy I just created a poll: “Should Twitter Create a Live Video Feed?” You should vote: http://bit.ly/AnCYd 11 Oct 2009 from POLLpigeon
3. PamCytrynbaum No Video Tweets…http://bit.ly/4pR2nt 11 Oct 2009 from web
4. zuweinalamki just voted “Yes! Definitely!” on “Should Twitter Create a Live Video Feed?” vote too âž” http://bit.ly/AnCYd 11 Oct 2009 from POLLpigeon
5. samermeqdad Apparently, twitter is not planning for video tweets (an official response) http://bit.ly/4pR2nt 11 Oct 2009 from web

Twitter’s response also clearly aknowledges existing video apps for the site, saying to duplicate them would, “undermine the trust of developers who invest huge amounts of time, money and energy in creating applications for the Twitter ecosystem.”

Some Twitter users say they don’t mind already using existing video apps for Twitter made from outside developers.

1. Laura_Royer @JenWP http://yfrog.us/14psxz
   Trying different Twitter apps. This one let’s me send video 11 Oct 2009 from Twitterrific
2. jrhode @rucsb With apps like @twitvid and @twitcam I’m not sure why Twitter needs to bother with adding video tweeting – http://bit.ly/fEzcu 11 Oct 2009 from Tweetie in reply to rucsb