Twitter, Photo Sharing | featured news

The battle lines are sharpening between Facebook and Twitter, as they fight to become the prime hub for photo sharing on the Internet.

Images from Instagram, the photo-sharing app that lets user spruce up their work with a slate of arty and retro filters, no longer show up on Twitter, a popular place to share them.

Twitter has launched its own photo-sharing tool, offering a native version of a feature that until now was mostly the domain of third-party apps like Twitpic and yfrog.

Twitter is going beyond 140 characters by adding a photo-sharing service.

American soldiers can now tweet, send friend requests and share photos and personal news just like the rest of the World Wide Web.