Where Have the Images Gone?

So, you've cruised on over to the web version of Twitter and looked quickly at your Twitter profile. More than likely (if you're an Instagram user) you've noticed the absence of many of your photographs that were kept under the "Recent Images" section of your profile. That would be due to Instagram pulling all of its images from Twitter posted there by users. Your photographs are now kaput now kaput.

If anything, the beer community benefited by the amazing filters Instagram employed. How many mouth-watering pictures did you post or come across over the past two years? That's right a ton.

From my (possibly former) Instagram account.

Now, Twitter has developed a new photography interface for both its iPhone and Android apps that enables you to add some filters to your pictures. Sadly, it leaves most of us in the online beer community with a dilemma.

If we continue to post photographs through Instagram, it means that less of our followers will be seeing what gets posted to our Twitter feeds. You might think those of us that say this are being picky, but people are less likely to see what you post when they have to make that second click on a tweet. If not, we can either post our pictures solely to our Twitter feeds with its new interface, or forgo posting them to Twitter altogether. To be honest, I find the collection of previous photographs on Twitter profiles valuable. I'll most likely be making the switch from Instagram to Twitter's new interface.

I'm interested to see how this goes. Will Twitter's new photo filters be anything like that of Instagram? I say it most likely will. All you're doing is putting a filter on a picture. Not that stunning when you really think about it.