Twitter Unveils User Galleries: Inside The 'Photo Album' Feature (PICTURES)

Twitter has unveiled a new feature, "user galleries," that puts your photos front and center.

The last 100 pictures you've included in your tweets will be compiled into a single page--your "user gallery"--that is highlighted on your Twitter.com profile just below your follower count (See the screenshot below). The feature offers a kind of personal photo album and makes Twitter just a hair more like Facebook, which has long allowed its users to create albums and redesigned its profile pages to display a user's most recently tagged photos just below her personal information.

Twitter has introduced a slew of updates that aim to better showcase media, particularly photos and videos, on its site. For example, earlier this month, Twitter started rolling out its image-sharing service, which allows users to upload photos from Twitter.com, then include them in their tweets as links.

Twitter offered some tips on using its new "galleries" feature in its Help Center.

First, users should know that manually retweeting a tweet that has a link to a photo in it will add that image to their gallery, while retweeting a post using Twitter's retweet button will not.

Second, to remove an image from the gallery, a user must delete the entire tweet.

Twitter explains:

Delete the Tweet that contains the image; it should be removed from your timeline and your user gallery.

Note: If your image is being hosted on a third party service such as yFrog or TwitPic and you delete the Tweet the image will be removed from your user gallery but will still be available on those services so you'll need to delete the image from there if you'd like to remove it from the internet entirely.

Don't see your gallery yet? You're not alone: We're still waiting for access to the new feature, and Twitter noted in a tweet that it would begin "rolling out" the tool today.

Check out screenshots of the user galleries below (via Twitter.com)

Comments

[DatingRev]

08:33 AM on 08/23/2011

While that's great, I think they need to work on fixing the Twitter spam issues before they make more "cute" features like this.

I'm not even talking about some of the hard core heuristic models that companies like McAfee or Norton use for viruses. I'm referring to basic common sense stuff. For example, when a user with zero followers includes the identical link to 40 people, it's probably spam.

Yes, I know that there's some risk involved. People could just be repeatedly spreading the same amazing HuffPo article. But seriously, give users more flexibility in terms of how they can proactively filter spam... the currently methods (none) suck.

[turlockgirl24]

05:05 AM on 08/23/2011

I love my Twitter cause I have no life :)

[SPQR1052]

06:14 PM on 08/22/2011

I am confused... what  is TWITPIC if not Twitter?

[moslef]

05:37 PM on 08/22/2011

DJ Neil Armstrong

[Vic22]

05:36 PM on 08/22/2011

I wonder what Anthony We.iners would look like