Twitter started hosting its own images back in September after a year with Photobucket

Twitter has recently been moving towards self-sufficiency, downplaying the importance of third-party tools, and that's become apparent in a new blog post about image hosting. In 2011, Twitter started letting users upload photographs directly, but the image hosting was provided through a partnership with Photobucket. Now, Twitter has announced that in September, it turned on an in-house tool called Blobstore. Blobstore, Twitter says, lets the service scale up its undoubtedly massive hosting capab...