Twitter Image Galleries Open Up Business Outreach

24.08.2011
All those pictures you've been posting to Twitter using third-party apps, such as or TwitPic, will appear on your Twitter profile starting Monday.

According to the , the galleries will automatically display the 100 most recent images that a given user has shared through , pulling images from as far back as January 2010.

You can display the new galleries either in a grid view or as a list, which shows when each image was shared along with the accompanying tweet.

For now, you'll still have to use one of these third-party apps to snap a photo and instantly tweet it. Yet, Twitter's push to become more image-centric could have huge implications on businesses' communication strategies across the platform. Image sharing--now common but by no means ubiquitous--could spark a serious shift in the way the platform is used now that you'll be able to scan a user's image history alongside their tweets.

Image galleries could become much more than an afterthought for Twitter, and this could have huge implications for the way your business uses it.

Does your company tweet images? If not, get started. The good news is that you can use any of the third-party image apps, and when Twitter rolls out its new service, they'll aggregate and display whatever you've shared so far.