Extending Twitter – adding Imgur previews
Enabling Imgur preview in Twitter
Update 08/12/2010 - There's now a Firefox Extension in the Add-Ons sandbox available for adding this media preview to Twitter, as well as previews for Daft.ie and Adverts.ie ads.
With their recent site redesign, Twitter added a number of interesting new features. One of the more useful of these is the media preview. From the Twitter blog:
Media. Now, it’s easy to see embedded photos and videos directly on Twitter, thanks to partnerships with DailyBooth, deviantART, Etsy, Flickr, Justin.TV, Kickstarter, Kiva, Photozou, Plixi, Twitgoo, TwitPic, TwitVid, USTREAM, Vimeo, yfrog, and YouTube.
This is definitely one of the more useful features of the new Twitter web interface, and covers most of the more mainstream media sources that I'd notice showing up in my timeline. That said, there are some notable omissions..