Twitpic is shutting down following legal dispute with Twitter

The photo-sharing website Twitpic is shutting down operations due to a trademark dispute with microblogging site Twitter, announced its founder Noah Everett in a blog post. The firm will stop operations Sep 25.   Everett said that Twitter’s lawyers had contacted Twitpic’s legal team demanding the company abandon its trademark application or risk losing access to Twitter’s API, the code that lets Twitpic users share photos over Twitter. “Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to fend off a large company like Twitter to maintain our mark which we believe whole heartedly is rightfully ours. Therefore, we have decided to shut down Twitpic,” Everett wrote.  

Twitpic was a popular service in Twitter’s early days as a means of sharing photos on the social network. “We are sad to see Twitpic is shutting down,” a Twitter spokesperson told the Time.   Twitpic will inform users how to export their photos and videos soon.   With inputs from IANS