Twitter just bought image and video hosting site Twitpic-ending the "cha-cha" dance once and for all.
"I'm happy to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to give them the Twitpic domain and photo archive, thus keeping the photos and links alive for the time being," says Twitpic creator Noah Everett in his blog post on Saturday.
"Twitter shares our goal of protecting our users and this data," Everett added.
The online social media company has been going back and forth on the whether to buy Twitpic or not, much like Twitpic stuck on whether to close down-finally, now, the confusion finally ends.
Twitpic is a well-known app that allows users to attach photos and videos to their tweets. It was established in 2008 as a third party app primarily used for sharing photos and videos on Twitter.
The company got into a trademark fight with Twitter and eventually lost the battle as the social media giant moved on and provided an easier way of uploading photos and videos to its site-deeming Twitpic useless.
That move by Twitter endangered Twitpic and forced them to announce that they would be shutting down. In Everett's blog post dated Sept. 4, he put the blame on Twitter for the company closing down.
However, on Sept. 18, Twitpic revealed that instead of closing down, it had been acquired by some unnamed company.
And once again, Twitpic announced it was shutting down the second time around on Oct. 25 since the deal did not push through.
Finally, Twitpic announced that they sealed the deal with Twitter buying them out.
In Everett's final blog post, Everett described what the news means to its users:Twitpic will no longer be taking on new photos or data (the site will be in a read-only mode), The iOS and Android apps have been removed from the app stores and will no longer be supported, You will still be able to login to your profile to delete content or delete your account on Twitpic.com, You can still export and download your data / photo archive on Twitpic.com
As Mashable puts it, "In other words, Twitpic is still dead, but the photos will continue to exist in read-only mode, any old tweets with Twitpic attachments will still load and users can still download their data."
