#TwitpicOTM: What Makes Your Holidays Happy?

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December is a time for gathering with family and friends and celebrating the holidays.  You all sent in some really great shots–  we saw lots of pups decked out in their holiday best, little kiddies patiently waiting for their presents, and your beautiful holiday decorations.  This shot was our favorite:

This pic comes from Mike Mittelstaed, an Art Director in Laguna Beach, CA.   “The weather was beautiful outside and this idea came to my mind.. How about we have Santa say ‘Christmas is Cancelled!’ and show him running into the surf?” From there, Mike rented the Santa suit, and set up the shot.  The pic came out so good, Mike’s boss even used it for a Christmas card!  Mike makes a good point, “nothing says a California Christmas like surfing.”

Here are our runners up!

We at Twitpic hope your holidays were happy and your new year is prosperous!


Improved Video Posting

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Hello Twitpic’ers! We’re excited to let you know that we’ve revamped video posting for Twitpic to be faster and more reliable.

We now support over a hundred video formats, covering 99.9% of all available video formats and the time from uploading your video to it posting to your Twitpic / Twitter account has been made dramatically faster.

You should see far fewer (if any) pages stuck on “Processing your video” or “An error occurred while processing your video” which we know was very annoying.

Thank you again for all your support as we continue to make Twitpic the best and easiest way to share your photos and videos!

#TwitpicOTM: Movember

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November is notorious for cooler weather, falling leaves, shorter days, giving thanks and of course, Movember: a worldwide moustache movement raising funds and awareness of men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. The prize winning shot comes from a group of gents who work together at Tyne & Wear Sport, based in the North East of England, UK.  ”We decided to take part in the Movember challenge because we wanted to help raise money for a great cause by doing something that was fun and a bit different (and secretly because it was a lot easier than running a marathon or jumping out of a plane)”, explains Xerxes Setna, #TwitpicOTM winner. “We took photographs at regular intervals and when I heard about #TwitpicOTM, I thought it was the ideal opportunity to show off our Mo’s to the world…  It’s been great seeing people’s reactions when they’ve walked into the office for meetings and been confronted by six hairy-faced men.”  By the end of the month the guys managed to raise £1130 [roughly $1513.52] for Movember.  What a great effort for such a great cause! Special thanks to all our submissions- you guys rock!

From left: Paul Thompson, Matthew Briggs, Adam Brougham, Ian Simon, Xerxes Setna and David Marrin

Check out our runners up:

..and the Twitpic Team!

 

#TwitpicOTM Contest Kicks Off Around the World

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Our very first ‘Twitpic of the Month’ contest was really something!  Thanks to everyone who participated.  With our theme being ‘where in the world are you?’, we saw it all: sunsets in Rome, driving to the beach in Hawaii, beautiful gardens in London.. by the end of the month, we felt as if we had traveled the world!

The prize winning shot comes from Hery Suryono (@hertju) in Tanjung Pesona Beach in Bangka Belitung Archipelago Indonesia.  Hery was vacationing here with a friend on this day.  His inspiration, “to express freedom with the beautiful beach in the background”.

Here’s the shot via Twitpic.

Stay tuned– we will announce this month’s theme very soon!

#TwitpicOTM

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All of us on the Twitpic team would like to say thank you.  Thank you for sharing your favorite faces, places, and memories with us.  We see everything from your latest sketches and newest additions to your family, to what you found in your fridge this morning.  You travel, you live, you love, and then, you share.

To have even more fun with your pictures, we are starting a Twitpic of the month contest (#TwitpicOTM).  Every month we will announce a “theme” and then, you submit your entries like so:

1.  Take your best shot (real time- must be shot and posted the same day)

2.  Upload the photo to Twitpic and tweet a clever caption (Twitpic uploads only)

3.  Don’t forget to mention #TwitpicOTM in your tweet to be eligible!

4.  Picture must agree with our Terms of Service

And Voila! You’re entered to win Twitpic of the Month.  If your picture is chosen at the end of the month, we will contact you and post your picture here on the Twitpic blog for all to see and enjoy.  We’ll also be sharing some of our favorites along the way.

Have ideas on themes and contests?  Tweet us your ideas @Twitpic and @TwitpicSupport

Hiring for our Customer Satisfaction team

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We’re looking to add a new member to our customer satisfaction team. At Twitpic we strive to provide the best customer service possible to our users and to leave them with a positive experience that they would want to share with others.

Requirements

  • Excellent computer skills
  • Willingness to go above and beyond for our user’s satisfaction
  • Ability to communicate clearly in a timely manner while dealing with multiple tasks
  • Experience with Twitter, Facebook and online customer support systems
  • Knowledge of technical terminology used in web applications
  • Proactively seeking out and responding to customer issues and questions on Twitter

We value attitude over experience and experience over degrees.

We provide competitive salary, full health benefits and paid vacation, all wrapped up in a fun, agile, startup environment.

Send your resume to jobs@twitpic.com – Be sure to include “Customer Satisfaction” in the subject line of your email.

Applicant must be located in the US and a US citizen.

Your content, your copyrights

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We recently made changes to our terms of service that has caused some confusion for our users. First off I want to apologize for that confusion and our lack of clarity. We’ve updated our terms again to be more clear and to also show that you still own your content.

Our goal with Twitpic from the beginning has been to create the best way to share your photos and videos on Twitter and to always keep our user’s best interest at the forefront.

To clarify our ToS regarding ownership, you the user retain all copyrights to your photos and videos, it’s your content. Our terms state by uploading content to Twitpic you allow us to distribute that content on twitpic.com and our affiliated partners. This is standard among most user-generated content sites (including Twitter). If you delete a photo or video from Twitpic, that content is no longer viewable.

As we’ve grown, Twitpic has been a tool for the spread of breaking news and events. Since then we’ve seen this content being taken without permission and misused. We’ve partnered with organizations to help us combat this and to distribute newsworthy content in the appropriate manner. This has been done to protect your content from organizations who have in the past taken content without permission. As recently as last month, a Twitpic user uploaded newsworthy images of an incident on a plane, and many commercial entities took the image from Twitpic and used it without the user’s permission.

To sum everything up, you the user retain all copyrights to your photos/videos and we are very sorry by the confusion our old updated terms of service caused.

Thank you for choosing Twitpic – @noaheverett (Noah Everett)

Now share videos on Twitpic!

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We’ve been working hard the past few months to release our new video sharing feature for Twitpic. Just like uploading a photo you can now upload a video from the site itself, from your phone via email or from supported Twitter/Twitpic clients.

We’re working to be your all-in-one media sharing service for Twitter and to make that process as quick and easy as possible.

You can check out our launch video here, we hope you enjoy it!

Hiring iOS / Android Developer

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Twitpic is a fast growing startup with millions of users around the world and we are looking to grow our team. We value attitude over experience and experience over degrees.

What we’re looking for:

The ideal candidate is a seasoned iOS and/or Android developer with successful released apps. You’ve mastered the intricacies of Objective C, Cocoa Touch and/or Java with experience designing great user interfaces for iOS and/or Android platforms.

Qualifications

  • Comprehensive experience with iOS and/or Android development
  • Successful released apps in the app store (please include names)
  • Deep understanding of Objective C, and/or Java
  • 1+ years work experience as a software engineer
  • Understanding of scalability, systems engineering, and algorithms
  • Excellent product sense and design sense
  • Team player

Twitpic offers full-benefits and competitive salary all wrapped up in an agile startup environment.

Send your resume to jobs@twitpic.com with the Subject line of “iOS / Android Developer”

Telecommute positions are available, must be a US resident.

Five Things You Should Know about Noah Everett

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For those of you who are unaware, today is a special day that occurs only once a year: National Boss Day.  It is on this day that we are asked to take some time to commemorate the person who keeps the company running, the money flowing, and the employees happy.

Here at TwitPic, we wanted to celebrate this day in style.  Rather than posting a tweet saying something lame like “Happy National Boss Day!”, we’ve decided to put a little more creativity behind it.

So, without further ado, I give you: Five Things You Should Know about Noah Everett.

#1. Noah is really Johnny Knoxville in disguise.

While most of the time Noah does an awesome job of covering this up, sometimes Johnny begins to show through.  Who would have known the crazed stuntman who appears in such films as Jackass, Jackass 2, Jackass 3D, and Men in Black II is also a successful social media entrepreneur?  We were surprised when we discovered this too, but we have to admit… we’re cool with it as long as he doesn’t decide to play frisbee with our Macbook Pros.

#2. Noah is an aspiring mirror model.

When you’re an entrepreneur, your job is to keep an eye out for whats hot and whats new. Attempting to stay ahead of the curve, Noah has been practicing his mirror modeling skills in order to keep up with the latest trend in personal photography. I think the pictures speak for themselves here.

#3. Noah has had a love affair with his computer.

“Hello clarice, it’s good to see you”

This racy photo was posted to his TwitPic account back in December, 2009. The photo caption seems to be hinting at some kind of complex love affair that only a true programmer would fall into. It is believed that TwitPic is the child produced by Noah and this computer, although a different computer may be the real father. The investigation continues.

#4. Noah is such a pro photo-bomber that he even bombs his own photos.

This photo-bomb was taken at the latest Chirp conference in San Francisco with none other than the musical genius that is BT. As you can see from Noah’s crazed expression, he clearly couldn’t pass up an opportunity to photo-bomb a picture as epic as this. For shame, Noah, for shame.

#5. This is what sexy looks like.

@twitpicmom thinks this has something to do with buying the pink plastic swimming pool instead of the toy machine gun that he wanted for his 8th birthday.

Ok, but really…

So maybe not all of these things are true, but one thing definitely is: Noah is an awesome boss. His laid-back attitude combined with his passion is what helps to make our job so enjoyable. His views are truly that of a “startup company”: avoiding rigid corporate hierarchies, allowing flexible time schedules, and letting us pursue our ideas makes TwitPic a fun company to work for, and has helped to contribute to its success. So Noah, we hope you are having an awesome Boss Day and we hope that you will continue to run TwitPic with just as much awesomeness.