Twitter is many things to many people, but we have to admit we never had it pegged down as a new file-sharing tool. However, two new services make it just that: FileTwt and SongTwit.Both are as simple to use as Twitter itself. FileTwt lets you upload any file of up to 20MB in size, then share it with your entire Twitter network or individual followers. It's not just for music, of course – it can be used to share photos, documents or any file-type you like. When people click on the link in your Twitter feed, they're directed to a FileTwt page to download the file. Here's a sample tweet from a file we uploaded.SongTwit works slightly differently, in that it's built for music. You can choose tunes from the service's own library, by pasting in a specific web address, or by uploading your own MP3 (or various other formats). When people click on the link in your tweet (here's another sample from us), they don't get to download the file, but instead get to listen to it in a player powered by Imeem.Annoyingly, ten minutes after we uploaded our 30-second fragment of a song (which we made ourselves, copyright [...]
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