Everybody’s doing it. Even YouTube has succumbed to Twitter mania. Below every video if you click on the “Share” link you will find three options: MySpace, Facebook, and now Twitter. You can expand the box for even ore sharing options, but those are the main three and Twitter was just recently added.
Clicking on the Twitter button opens a pop-up window that takes you to your Twitter account and fills in a Tweet telling your followers to “check out this video,” along with the title and URL. The URL is not shortened, but YouTube is working on that. (Youtube URLs are short anyway, so it is not a huge issue).
This is a good move and a no brainer. I am surprised that it took so long for this to happen. It probably has to do with Google being careful about not helping twitter to grow there by becoming more expensive for it to acquire. Now that twitter is growing like weed, google probably decided to leverage it instead. Good move. I would expect other video sites follow suit.