Goodbye Twitpic! Tweet Photos With Flickr Twitter Beta

June 21st, 2009 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

Watch out Twitpic! Flickr now allows its users to automatically send out a tweet whenever they upload photos through email. If you follow me on Twitter, then you probably notice I prefer to include photos with my tweets. I’ve been doing this with Twitpic on Nokia phones, but I no longer need it thanks to Flickr Twitter beta.

Twitter Flickr

Setup

  • You’ll need to authorize your account here: www.flickr.com/account/blogs/add/twitter
  • Click on “Head over to Twitter” then “Allow.”
  • Note the email address. You can simply send an email over and it will work, but I suggest bringing this info over to Pixelpipe so you can tweet from your Nokia phone using Share Online.

Why Flickr over Twitpic?

  • If you already use Flickr, you no longer need to use another service like Twitpic to tweet your photos.
  • Twitpic lets you view a resized photo plus the original size, while Flickr allows 6 size options.
  • Flickr shows other useful info like the camera used or geotagged locations. Twitpic supports neither.

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  • EdEdd
    "tweet from your Nokia phone using Share Online"
    Just How can we do that??? I search all over this blog and there arent concret instructions... Sorry if we are not as smart as you =/

    Its just I cant find on pixelpipe where to insert my flickr2twitter address, I can only put it in "blog address" and when I enter my data it says "Sorry, we couldn't find an API endpoint URL for this service, if you know it, you may enter it directly."

    any thoughts???
  • I wouldn't completely abandon TwitPic just yet, until Flickr is widely supported by applications (such as Gravity) to post and preview pictures TwitPic still has top kudos.
  • How do you add the info to Pixelpipe?
  • nick
    Flickr has email by upload for quite some time now, probably about a year. How is this different?
    Also, I hope dabr integrates the pictures inline.
  • Flickr tweets the photos you send to this specific email.
  • I'm all for it, but is there any plans to have this integrate with third party apps?
  • Nick
    the only thing with this is that all us Gravity users won't be able to preview your pictures anymore
  • Shouldn't be a problem. The s60 browser loads the mobile flickr page pretty well.
  • Another good reason is if you are a Flickr Pro, why use another pic service?
  • right on!
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