Soaring heights at Twitpic

Twitter might not be making money but Twitpic certainly is.

Results released yesteday showed that the site launched in 2008,generated more than $1.5m in ad revenue in 2009, resulting in a $700,000 profit.

It attracted 6.5m registered users last year.One of the catalysts was the pictures of the U.S. Airways jet which splashed down into the Hudson River exactly a year ago.

That first picture became one of the iconic photos of 2009, broadcast over and over on cable news, printed in newspapers, and sprayed all over the Internet.

It has been viewed on Twitpic over half a million times

Cellen Jones is twitpicted

BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones had rather a shock when he tried to post a picture using twitpic.

He relates the story on his blog

All went well, until I uploaded a third picture - of the BBC news channel set - and returned to my desk to find various startled messages on Twitter:
"Think that might be a wrong picture Rory and you might want to look at it ASAP." "Are you really sure about that photo?" "Please tell me twitpic has confused your photo with someone else's?" "You might want to check that last link!"
So I did check that last link - and instead of an inoffensive picture of a BBC studio, it was a shot of a young woman wearing nothing but a smile, in a pose that can only be described as extremely post-watershed.

What had happened.Well not what Cellen Jones thought ie that he had been hacked.But no he was

the victim of what he described as "a random bug" that sometimes gets a user's photo mixed up with someone else's.