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"Twitpic, a service that put photos on Twitter before Twitter itself let you do that, launched its first mobile app on Monday.\nThe free iPhone app lets users edit photos and add filters before posting them to Twitter. Twitpic founder Noah Everett says that a similar Android app will be released within the next month.\nFounded in 2008, Twitpic provides the API that powers photo sharing in apps like Tweetbot. Twitter launched its own photo-sharing service last year with Photobucket as its hosting partner, but sharing via Twitpic is still an option in its mobile apps. \nEven though Twitter's native service has unsurprisingly eclipsed Twitpic, Everett says the app has more than 35 million users on third-party devices. \nPhoto-sharing app Instagram, which was recently acquired by Facebook, has about 50 million users.\nSo why is Twitpic launching its own app now? Everett says it's not to make his company a better acquisition target for Twitter, which reportedly wanted to buy Instagram before Facebook made its $1 billion deal.\n\"Our goal is just to provide the best possible product for our users,\" he says. \"As far as trying to position ourselves for acquisition by any particular service, that's not our focus.\"\n\n\n\n\nPhoto courtesy of iStockphoto, vesilvio\u202C."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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