It isn't stopping there, either. Twitter co-founder and executive chairman Jack Dorsey also announced that the company was also in the process of securing deals with wireless carriers worldwide to allow users to send pictures to the microblogging service by picture messages from their phones, much like users can currently text tweets in.

Twitter is also giving search a makeover: Results would now include links to photos and video posted on the service where relevant. In addition, a new version of the would also allow for searching of Twitter user names and hashtags directly from the address bar.

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