One of our portfolio companies, Drop.io, recently launched some functionality that makes Twitter much easier to use.

Drop.io's mission is to provide simple private sharing via the Internet. The company enables anyone to create a webpage, or drop, to share any type of file (for free) without creating an account. While there are lots of ways to use this platform, I use it a lot for sharing large files because it's super easy.

As part of its making sharing easy mission, the company is trying to enable users to upload or download media to a drop in any way possible. For example, I can upload media by email, SMS, fax, phone, etc. and download via email, SMS, fax, RSS and now Twitter.

The new Twitter feature sets the drop up to broadcast any new content via Twitter. I can email a picture from my phone to the drop and it will automatically become a Tweet. There are a couple advantages to this solution versus other alternatives on the market.

• First, any type of media can be uploaded and broadcasted - it's not limited to pictures. Text, video, etc. also work.
• Second, a repository of all of the content being uploaded is created so that I (or others) can consume all of that content on the drop page.
• Third, a drop can become a many-to-many communication platform because drops can be set to allow anyone to add new content which will in turn be sent out to Twitter accounts.

All-in-all it's an elegant solution that makes sharing viable in a way it never was before. As I'm using Twitter more aggressively now, I have found that Drop.io is the best complementary solution. After doing research to identify the best solutions, all roads led back to our own portfolio.