{"id":111664,"date":"2009-12-29T14:36:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/readwritestart\/2009\/12\/filesocial-a-community-for-sha.php"},"modified":"2009-12-29T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:36:33","slug":"filesocial-a-community-for-sharing-files-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/111664","title":{"rendered":"FileSocial: A Community for Sharing Files on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"filesocial_logo_dec09.jpg\"We have profiled Twitter-based file sharing services in the past<\/a>, but in some cases<\/a> the shared files were read-only and the UI design left much to be desired, or the service<\/a> merely redirected the user to a third-party file sharing service.<\/p>\n

Spain-based Ideateca<\/a> has conquered these drawbacks with FileSocial<\/a>, a sleek multi-platform file sharing service for Twitter. After authenticating their Twitter account, users can upload any filetype up to 50MB, add a message of 110 characters or less, and FileSocial will post the tweet on Twitter with a link to the file.<\/p>\n

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The web interface shows users a stream of their files, which any user can download or comment on. Comments automatically get posted to Twitter as @ replies to the user who uploaded the file.<\/p>\n

Aside from using the FileSocial web interface, Windows, Mac or Linux users can download a desktop application<\/a>, built on Adobe AIR with drag-and-drop functionality, to upload files. Android users can also download the official FileSocial Android app<\/a>, and while there is no official iPhone app, the third-party app tweet media<\/a> allows uploading through FileSocial’s API.<\/p>\n

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The one major drawback of FileSocial is the inability to post files privately for confidential sharing. All files uploaded to the service show up in a public timeline of files, regardless of whether you choose to post the file to Twitter or not. The option to mark files as private or send the link as a direct message is a key feature that is lacking from FileSocial.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to come make friends with us at ReadWriteWeb<\/a> on Twitter!<\/p>\n

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We have profiled Twitter-based file sharing services in the past, but in some cases the shared files were read-only and the UI design left much to be desired, or the service merely redirected the user to a third-party file sharing service. Spain-based Ideateca has conquered these drawbacks with FileSocial, a sleek multi-platform file sharing service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}