YouTube Just Became the TwitPic of Video

YouTube has just added a small feature with big implications: the ability to link your Twitter , Facebook , and Google Reader accounts to YouTube and automatically send out an update as soon as you upload a new video. This means a whole lot more YouTube notifications in the streams of your favorite social sites. Similar to how TwitPic has become the de facto tool for sharing pictures on Twitter, YouTube has just positioned itself as the way to share video inside of status updates. Granted, sharing YouTube videos is already immensely popular on these services, and not especially difficult, but now it can be done all in one-click, on a page that millions of people already visit every day to upload videos to the Web. Linking your accounts to YouTube is easy. When you go to the upload page , you simply select the accounts you’d like to link, and YouTube walks you through both Facebook Connect and Twitter OAuth (or your Google Account for Reader). When done, any time you upload a video, it will be syndicated to the networks you’ve linked. What YouTube still needs is its own URL shortener. Mind you, the URLs they currently use aren’t especially long, but on character-limited services, smaller URLs would be useful. In any event, YouTube just became an even bigger part of the social web. See Also: Top 5 Ways to Share Videos on Twitter Reviews: Facebook , Google Reader , Twitpic , Twitter , YouTube Tags: youtube

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YouTube Just Became the TwitPic of Video

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