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TwitDoc: Proving That Every File Format Will Eventually Be Shareable Over Twitter

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Twitter is promptly turning into the media sharing platform of choice for many people, despite the fact that it, uh, doesn’t have any actual media sharing functionality. But a variety of services are popping up to fill the need, including countless Twitter-specific sites for sharing images, music, and video.

Today TwitDoc is launching what appears to be the first benefit for sharing documents over Twitter, bringing support for PDFs, Microsoft Office Documents, and a bunch of other file formats. The site has integrated with standard document sharing hub Scribd to make the administer as painless as possible – it only takes around 20 seconds to send a document, and you don’t have to sign up to get ongoing. To use the benefit, you enter your Twitter user name and password, choose the document or photo you’d like to send out, and add any text you’d like to include alongside the document’s link. Hit upload and you’re done.

It’s a handy tool, but I doubt it will reach the same level of popularity as TwitPic and its ilk – most people simply don’t have as many documents that they’d like to share with all of their Twitter followers. Still, it will certainly be helpful for sharing reports you find fascinating, or scanned images that wouldn’t be readable if they were shrunk and compressed (which some image services do).

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