Twitter file-sharing services are popping up like weeds. One of the newest is Filetwt, which lets you share almost any type of file on Twitter.  Whether you want to share a business presentation or your band’s latest tune, you can do so on Filetwt with just a few clicks.

Filetwt has gone all out to make sending files to your Twitter friends as easy as possible.  Signing up takes less than a minute, but even that is optional unless you want to send your file as a DM to specific people. If you want to share your file with everyone, just enter in your username and password, upload your file and hit “send.”

The only quibble I have with the user interface for sending a file is that if you’re trying to send a private tweet and you have a lot of followers, it takes a moment to find the person in the list because there’s no organization and no search feature.

However, as Read Write Web noted when they reviewed Filetwt, being on the receiving end of Filetwt’s filesharing is another matter. They called the UI “clunky.” When it comes to receiving files, I would go one step further and call it just plain aggravating. As you can see from the screenshots, when you receive a file, you click on a link to download. This takes you to RapidShare’s website, where you are then informed that if you want them to hand over your file with “speed and ease,” you must become a paying customer.

If you click on the “Free User” option, the website makes you wait another 40 seconds because you are “not a premium user.” Grrrr. Finally, you allowed to download your file, and guess what-unless you have a very large file (and Filetet will cut you off at 20 MB anyway), it doesn’t take that long at all. According to the ReadWriteWeb article I referenced above, Filetwt is supposed to start using other hosting companies in addition to RapidShare-perhaps that will make the downloading process less of a hassle for recipients.

Filetwt doesn’t get a perfect score in innovation-Twittershare came first. However, Filetwt’s user interface is much easier to use than Twittershare’s, at least for sending.  Usefulness will undoubtedly improve as the service grows, allowing for larger files to be shared and adding mobile apps for file-sharing on the go. According to Mashable, other improvements on the horizon will include the ability to re-tweet files and Google Maps integration.

Our Rating of Filetwt

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