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First, photo-sharing service TweetPhoto got a new name, becoming Plixi in August. Now, it has a new owner — members-only social-commerce site Lockerz — and it will soon have another new name, as Lockerz said Plixi will become Lockerz Photos and the combined traffic of the two sites will total more than 31 million unique monthly users.

Plixi serves more than 1 billion photos per month, and more than 300 developers have integrated its technology, with the service receiving more than 67 million requests daily via application program interfaces.

The two companies will team up to develop new media-sharing features, including the ability for Lockerz members to share activities, photos, and videos on other social networks. They will also focus on celebrity content, as Plixi celebrity users currently include Justin Bieber, LeBron James, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Seth MacFarlane, and Chelsea Handler.

Terms of the transaction were not revealed.

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Global news organization WENN will be the broker for celebrity images on social photo-sharing service Plixi (formerly TweetPhoto), under terms of an exclusive agreement announced Wednesday.

Celebrity photos on Plixi can now be purchased via WENN, also helping to ensure that proper attribution is included.

Plixi CEO Sean Callahan said:

We are pleased to be working with the leader in celebrity photos to help us manage our popular celebrity images used by mainstream media publications. This partnership will help solve the fundamental problem of media outlets not providing proper attribution to photos they publish from our service.

WENN CEO Lloyd Beiny added:

This is a significant development in resolving what until now has been a digital wild west. Publications, Web sites, and photo agencies have liberally helped themselves to the photos posted on Plixi and reproduced them with scant concern for the ownership of copyright. As a result of this new arrangement, anyone wishing to publish celebrity photos posted through the Plixi platform now knows they can do so without breaching copyright by acquiring the images legitimately from WENN.

TweetPhoto, the real-time social web photo sharing platform, just announced numerous options for developers, as well a new “link account” feature that will improve user experience. Developers now have the option of client libraries for Objective-C, Java, or .Net, in addition to the previous PHP and Python options. As well, user authentication support has been added for Twitter OAuth and Facebook Connect.
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