Twitter Kills Rival Image Services From Its Apps (And The New Profile Cover Photos Really Suck)

With its latest update (and as we speculated yesterday), Twitter has removed all third party image services – which includes yFrog, Twitpic, Mobypicture, Twitgoo, img.ly and Posterous – from the latest update of its official apps for iPhone, iPad and Android.

As of right now, the only image service option you have with one of these official Twitter apps is Twitter’s own internal photo sharer, which is another step in the micro-blogging firm’s planned journey to an all-consuming media empire powerhouse.

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