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For such a simple service Twitter has spawned hundreds, if not, thousands of services that use its open API. Many of these services have large amounts of funding, employ several people, and are used by many consumers on a daily basis. Some companies adapted their service to work with Twitter, while others were created completely for use with Twitter.

You’d probably need every one of your fingers to name just the photography services that interact with Twitter. And that’s just the popular ones. TwitPic, Brightkite, yfrog, Radar… you get the point. The point is: I only have four fingers.

Now that the iPhone 3GS can record and upload videos many services are offering small video uploads. (Yes, Viddler is working on supporting iPhone uploads.) We’ll get to that in a moment though.

A recent addition to the list of Twitter photo sharing websites is TwitSnaps. It does actually offer some unique features that other services don’t have. One neat feature is a magnification box on the image page which shows you to see the full-size magnification of the photograph. If it’s a 20-megapixel image, you’ll see huge magnification. If it’s a 3-megapixel image, you won’t see as much magnification. You can also upload images up to 10MB — most other services limit you to around 5MB.

Robert Scoble (friend him up!) interviewed TwitSnaps founder, Simar Sing, about the site and his business.

I found it interesting that Simar’s main company creates smaller ones and sells them off. I guess it’s like making different models of cars; you design them, create them, and sell them on to others. Okay, not the best analogy, but you get the point.

Robert linked to all the Twitter photo sharing services, as well as some great reviews of the services by Rev2.org and Mashable.

For those wondering: Yes, Viddler will soon support videos uploaded from the new iPhone 3GS. Thanks to the Viddlerers that have uploaded their iPhone 3GS test footage. Once we upgrade our encoders we’ll let you know when it’s good to go!

As always, if you have a fabulous video you’d like featured on the Viddler Blog, then just let me know by sending me a message or leaving a comment on this post.