Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernise the site.
The upgrade, which is being discussed by Twitter's founders, will enable Twitter users to upload brief video snippets to their profiles directly from mobile phones, laptops and other devices.
Third party sites Twiddeo and Tweetube already allow Twitter users to post video tweets but only by creating links to their sites.
Both Twideo and Tweetube have so far failed to gain as much popularity as similar external service Twitpic.
Twitter's founders hope by adding live video-tweeting it will help boost its prominence as a fashionable social-networking tool again.
In recent weeks both British singer Lily Allen and Hannah Montana actress Miley Cyrus have snubbed the site by closing their Twitter accounts.
Allen's last tweet read: "I am a neo-Luddite, goodbye."
Some of Britain's biggest tweeters include Stephen Fry with 810,000 followers, Sarah Brown, the prime minister's wife, with 840,000 followers, and rock group Coldplay who have more than two million followers. Sarah Brown's Twitter following is already believed to be five times larger than the entire membership of the Labour party.
Although many tweets describe mundane activities, the site has played a role in news events. Twitter was an active platform for protesters during the Iranian elections and in January, a ferry passenger was the first person to post pictures of people being rescued from an airliner in New York's Hudson River.
Twitter has also been used as a campaign tool by Barack Obama and British politicians in support of the NHS.
The site has yet to make a profit or find a way of making money but has been valued at £603m. Twitter has 54 million users around the world every month.
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