Interestingly, this is in no way twitter specific. I think the twitter connection is either for marketing reasons, or the developer didn't know about other past

Interestingly, this is in no way twitter specific. I think the twitter connection is either for marketing reasons, or the developer didn't know about other pastebins out there before they set out to build their own. In terms of differences, Snipt seems to be focused more on building a community around pasted code (rating snippets, searching across them etc.) But it's really just another pastebin.