Image-sharing service Twitpic to shut down on October 25

New Delhi: The photo-sharing service Twitpic will be finally shutting down on October 25, according to a blog post by startup founder Noah Everett.

The post reads as: "It's with a heavy heart that I announce again that Twitpic will be shutting down on October 25th. We worked through a handful of potential acquirers and exhausted all potential options. We were almost certain we had found a new home for Twitpic (hence our previous tweet), but agreeable terms could not be met. Normally we wouldn't announce something like that prematurely but we were hoping to let our users know as soon as possible that Twitpic was living on. I'm sincerely sorry (and embarrassed) for the circumstances leading up to this, from our initial shutdown announcement to an acquisition false alarm."

Twitpic announced in early September that it was shutting down that month because its bid to trademark its name was being opposed by San Francisco-based Twitter. Weeks later, Twitpic crowed that the service for posting photos or video to Twitter was being acquired in a deal that would keep it alive.

Twitpic, launched in 2008, allowed users to post photographs on the messaging platform before Twitter added its own photo-sharing option in 2011.

In 2011, Twitter allowed users to directly upload pictures as part of their tweets, dealing a setback to third-party services such as Twitpic.