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Twitter users have long been able to share images via Twitpic, but video generally relied on using a URL shortening service to link to the content in question.

New service Tweetube aims to solve this problem, for Youtube videos at least.

You can either use the url of the video/page, or keyword search from the main Tweetube page.  Edit the message as your wish, and then submit using your Twitter username and password.

If you then visit Tweetube and log in, you can view all shared videos, with the time submitted, and the total cumulative visits.  It also has a Public Timeline of all videos submitted via the service, which is quite handy for seeing what is being shared, and a Popular Videos stream (which doesn’t include publicly-viewable figures sadly).

The ability to post and track visits is something that could be accomplished fairly easily via a URL shortening service – but the Public Timeline is definitely interesting as a method of identifying popular content, what is going viral, and people who might be interested in similar content etc.

In some ways, it’s almost a very lightweight Blip.fm for video, with the sole weakness that you have to post a public Tweet for it to register your video – whereas Blip exists seperately, so you can choose whether or not you need to share each song you listen to.

Definitely a service worth using if you’ve got an interest in producing or sharing video.

Tweetube Public Timeline