Flickr4Twitter: Send Photos to Twitter and Flickr

Imran Ali — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:00:39 +0000

Twitter’s most powerful — and largely unintended — success has been the ecosphere of third-party clients, applications, extensions and plugins that the service has enabled. One of the most ubiquitous extensions is Twitpic, a service that lets users post photos directly from their phones and computers to the web. Twitpic has enabled a form of photo-journalism that’s immediate and direct, but the service itself remains unsophisticated, lacking tools for analytics, location, sharing, archiving or metadata.

I have always wanted to post my Twitter photos to an existing, richer photo sharing site: Flickr. Recently, I’ve been trying out Steven Haddox’s Flickr4Twitter, a service that does just that — and should be useful for budding photojournalists, nano-bloggers and celebrity spotters with

Currently in a public alpha-testing phase, the service allows Twitter clients to simultaneously post photos to a user’s Twitterstream and Flickr account, along with URLs generated by Flickr’s own recently-launched Short URLs service.

Using the service is simple:

Create an account using the Sign In With Twitter option; your username will be your Twitter screenname.
Authorize Flickr to use the service.
Upload your photos using the web upload interface (kinda clunky) or Tweetie. Users of Tweetie 2 on iPhone can configure their client with a “URL Shortening API Endpoint” that sends photos to Flickr rather than Twitpic.
That’s it!

The service works invisibly and seamlessly when using Tweetie 2 (see my samples) and means that my mobile photos are instantly shared with my Twitter followers, and are also available on the world’s favorite photo sharing service.

Head on over to Flickr4Twitter to try the service. Incidentally GDZLLA have also launched a competing service, but without Sign In With Twitter capability.

What do you think of this Twitpic alternative?

Tiny Twitter Gets Even Better

Scott Blitstein — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:00:39 +0000

I’ve always found Tiny Twitter to be an outstanding mobile Twitter client, and with its latest release it has gained some new features that make it even better. I’ve raved about Tiny Twitter in the past and now it is even more useful.

New features include auto uploading of photos to Twitpic along with your tweet, and a hook into a GPS if available to provide location services. I’m particularly pleased with the Twitpic integration options as I have never really taken full advantage of the camera on my mobile. Being able to snap a quick photo and do a quick tweet makes it really simple to capture and share those moments. Look for more photos from me moving forward.

Tiny Twitter is a free download and works on many mobile devices.

How do you access Twitter from your mobile?

[via Geek in Disguise - Thanks Steve!]

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Flickr4Twitter: Send Photos to Twitter and Flickr

Tiny Twitter Gets Even Better