Twitter Acquired Twitpic’s Archive

Twitter has acquired website and photo archive – Twitpic –  which was in deletion limbo after the site announced it was being sued by Twitter over its name.

“I’m happy to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to give them the Twitpic domain and photo archive, thus keeping the photos and links alive for the time being,” Twitpic creator Noah Everett announced Saturday in a blog post. “Twitter shares our goal of protecting our users and this data.”

The first service to allow users to attach pictures to their tweets. The issue over Twitpic’s name was an issue with Twitter when the company applied for a trademark on its name.

In his final blog post, Everett described what the news means to its users:

In other words Twitter is shutting down Twitpic, but the pictures will live on in read only mode. This is a big move for Twitter and a smart one at that. Twitter doesn’t want old tweets with Twitpic photos to not load and leave millions of tweets without images. This is always a concern when users upload their content to third-party services. The closing of such a large service like Twitpic could erase millions and millions of memories and a large part of user history.

Tell is in the comments below what you think about Twitter’s attempt to save a large part of Twitter’s history.

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