In a move which marks a notable advancement over Twitter's addition of its own image-hosting service last year, the popular microblogging service said in a Monday announcement that its iOS and Android app now boast the addition of photo filters.

Twitter's updating its iOS and Android apps with the photo filters comes close on the heels of Instagram's decision to withdraw Twitter Cards support for its images; with the new feature partly being like Instagram and partly like Facebook's Camera app.

The addition of photo filters by Twitter for its iOS and Android apps unfolds a fairly simple process for clicking or editing photos; with the advantage of Twitter's feature vis-a-vis the Facebook-owned Instagram being that cropping and moving pictures is comparatively much easier.

To begin with, Twitter is only offering eight basic - yet quite attractive - filters, which are powered by Aviary, which was chosen as Flickr's online photo editor in April. The filters will go live on the newest versions of the Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android apps.

The new feature works in such a way that, once the users settle on a particular filter, the image gets compressed, and is saved to the camera roll, for adding it to a tweet. The image appears inline in the official Twitter apps as well as the apps which support Twitter Cards.