Earlier this month, Flickr started flirting with Twitter integration by allowing users to link their Flickr accounts to their Twitter accounts. The experiment was only for email uploads, which simultaneously created a Tweet with a short http://flic.kr link back to the photo on Flickr. Now that integration is an official feature called Flickr2Twitter.
In addition to email uploads, Flickr now lets you Tweet out any photos directly from the site. After linking your accounts, whenever you click on the “Blog this” button on any photo on Flickr, your Twitter account will be one of the distribution options. This works for both photos you’ve uploaded and other photos you find on the site. I have a feeling you are going to be seeing a lot of http://flic.kr links on Twitter pretty soon.
Developers who want to add Flickr as a photo option to desktop and mobile clients can use Flickr’s existing APIs. (You can learn more here). Once that happens, Twitpic and yFrog will have some company on those clients as a pull-down option.
I’ve been using Flicker+Twitter for a few weeks now, and it’s solid. What I appreciate most is that I’m not having pictures across several sites.
For mobile users that can take pictures in landscape mode, I’d like to see an option to have the picture turned 90 degrees left or right as part of the process. Like a %l or %r
Wow I didn’t know that was a tech term.
When is Mark buying Twitter?
As they say, a picture is worth more then a thousand words. That means Flickr is perfect for Twitter, considering that Twitter has a 160 character limit.
140 character limit
and with a Flickr short URL taking about 25 characters you have to phrase your caption in around 115 characters
140 actually O.o
This isn’t really new.
All the features you’ve mentioned have been live for at least 10 days.
what about mobile, how well does it work? Does it integrate with any flickr mobile apps?
Yes, for the iPhone app “Mobile Fotos”
Interesting.
But bad news for you.
Sooo sad. yet kind of funny at the same time. Sorry SnapTweet.
Erick, have you been having MG title your posts?
Meanwhile the iPhone is making a run on Canon for the most popular overall camera on Flickr: http://7thpixel...anon-on-flickr/
Twitter integration should put the iPhone over the top.
Unlike say, TechCrunch and twitter. Totally platonic.
LOL !!
now, can someone tell me whether or not there will be a file limit/storage limit with this new feature on flickr? Before this app I had been doing just this (less the immediate nature of the “marriage)… and ran out of storage space FAST due to flicker’s account limits. I fully suspect people to take and upload a butt load more images now that it’s more convenient. With that, will they be able to till the end of time, or will they get slapped in the face the moment they reach a “limit”?
That’s what Pro accounts are for, bro.
Now if only Flickr had a different area you could post mobile uploads to, or at minimum put them in a set automatically, ’cause 99% of my phone pictures aren’t “Flickrworthy”.
You can automatically add a tag to all of your mobile uploads.
http://www.flic...ail/?from=email
If you have an iphone, get the Mobile Fotos app. You can place uploads in to specific or new sets and then tweet them right from the app.
aweso.me
twitpic > deadpool
youtube & twideo next?
flickr2twitter will not become as popular as twitpic, let alone kill it.
twitpic is better for your average twitter user without a flickr pro account, because it is simpler to use and more cleanly integrates with twitter without all of the flickr’s UI baggage, needing a non twitter account, going through twitter OAuth etc. etc.
for example, adding flickr “as a pull-down option” is more annoying than adding twitpic, because twitpic uses your existing twitter password and username and requires no additional steps other than just selecting “twitpic” from a drop down.
flickr2twitter requires you pop over to flickr, sign in, set up twitter as a “blog”, authenticate your flickr account with twitter’s API and pop back. that’s pretty nasty, especially in a mobile client.
flickr2twitter is better for someone who already uses flickr and twitter, wants to combine the two, and doesn’t mind a bunch of set-up steps, and for twitter client developers who don’t might incorporating those extra steps into their applications.
this is a good extra feature for flickr users to have available, but i don’t think twitpic has much to fear, frankly.
that, and twitpic doesn’t even “need” to be selected or authorized. on some iphone twitter apps it is the default. you just click the camera button, take your picture and it automatically creates and uses your twitpic account in the background.
so twitpic will remain much more appealing to developers than flickr2twitter.
also, when you land on a twitpic page, links point back to the originating twitter account and comments on the tweet will be sent to twitter as well. twitpic is just so much more elegantly integrated into the twitter experience than flickr.
nice title
so no more twitpic, frog sites?
Thats exactly what I implemented a month ago on morgueFile.com.
http://morguefi...com/blog/?p=165
Erick, you’ve spent some time in Ithaca? What a beautiful place… in the summer.
I wish their was Picasa/Twitter integration. Prefer it over Flick’r
I think we will end up seeing a lot of photo to twitter integration on sites, and that unless twitpic has a major meltdown (or gets hacked too often) there will be multiple sites providing photo support for twitter.
We might only have 140 characters to use on Twitter, but “A TWEET IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS!”
Regards, Artie
I have an iPhone I wanna put my pic on Twitter and I don’t know how to do it somebody help
I think we will end up seeing a lot of photo to twitter integration on sites
flickr2twitter requires you pop over to flickr, sign in, set up twitter as a “blog”, authenticate your flickr account with twitter’s API and pop back. that’s pretty nasty, especially in a mobile client.