Twitter + Video equals Twiddeo!

For the voyeur and exhibitionist in all of us, Twitter makes it brain dead simple to tell your social universe what you are doing right now via a short message that can be broadcast instantly and everywhere (websites, mobile devices, desktop apps, widgets, etc.).

Standing at Peet’s Coffee, and want to let your buddies know that you are about to get your first blast of caffeine of the day? Simply, effortlessly, tweet them.

Part of the goodness of Twitter is that its makers had the foresight to expose Twitter’s functionality via simple API’s so third-party developers could create new applications and services that are presented as ordinary updates within not only the Twitter.com site, but also across remote widgets and other Twitter enabled applications, including mobile environments.

This combination of enabling aggregation to create reach while facilitating the application diversity of an open, loosely coupled ecosystem, explains why the Twitter API generates 10X the traffic that the Twitter.com site does.

But what if instead of TELLING people what you are doing, you could SHOW them?

Enter Twiddeo, a new service that allows users to upload — via the web or mobile (email) — videos and aggregate those videos into Twitter, the same way a standard Twitter update happens.

To use the Twiddeo service (disclaimer: my company, vSocial, built the Twiddeo service), the user simply has to authenticate with their Twitter username and password to enable web uploads and to generate a unique email address to send videos from their mobile device.

The "SO WHAT" of this is that Twiddeo allows users to continue using Twitter as the aggregator it has become — no need to be tied into a website or a standalone application — while enabling video as a service within Twitter. This lets users start sending and viewing video tweets within minutes.