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Twitter may launch photo-sharing feature

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Would Twitter be a different beast if photos were as easy to post through the site as minutiae about users’ comings and goings?

We’re about to find out, according to TechCrunch, which reports that the microblogging monster is about to announce a photo sharing feature -– as early as Wednesday.

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Third-party developers, who created various services and functions that amplified the Twitter experience, are watching their entrypoints gradually disappear. Twitter snapped up TweetDeck -- a dashboard-style application that collects real-time information from social media sites into a single window -- for an estimated $40 million last week.

No word yet on whether there’s any quivering-in-boots going on at photo services Twitpic and Yfrog.

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Tiffany Hsu is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she wrote about the California economy, fast food, restaurants, retail and alternative energy for the Business section. A Bay Area native, UC Berkeley graduate and eternal Nor-Cal fan, she once worked for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She also did a stint at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where she developed a passion for sweet tea. She still has faith that someday she’ll find two economists who agree.

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