Twitpic voyeurism

The real time aspect of Twitter leads to weird and wonderful streams of communication across computer screens all over the planet and, most importantly, for photographic voyeurs like myself it adds a crazy collection of imagery to your daily news feed.

The Twitpic option, or even just the simply provision of links, allows the most casual and yet exceedingly personal look into the lives of the people I follow — from their children in stripy stockings to their cats sleeping on car bonnets and the weird looking dude on their morning train to work.

But my favourites are, of course, the famous people. Barack Obama’s media team @ObamaNews regularly Tweet images of the president and his family at official functions, like meeting the Russian first family, and doing regular around the White House stuff, like Michelle Obama gardening. Today’s offering (from Ghana?) was pretty mysterious:

This morning (Australian Eastern Standard time) NASA and many astronauts were Twittering about a rocket launch, including pictures as events unfolded:

My favourite astronaut Twitpic is of the famous Buzz Aldrin arm wrestling Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. His caption read: “I think I would win in arm wrestling b/c his joints don’t work the right way”.

How cool is that? Three cheers for Twitpic!