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Flickr2Twitter: Flickr Enters the Twitter Stream

Source: Mashable!

Jun 30, 2009

Summary

Flickr has just released their long awaited feature for posting photos to Twitter. It’s been in beta over the past few weeks, but now it’s live for everyone.

It’s not exactly like other photo tweeting services like TwitPic, which lets you sign-in using your Twitter account. To use Flickr2Twitter, you first need to sign-in to Flickr, and then authorize the service to post to your Twitter account, which can be done from your settings page.

Then, you’ll be able to use the “Blog This” button that accompanies each photo to post it to Twitter, along with a customized tweet. Like an increasing number of other services, Flickr2Twitter uses its own URL shortener: flic.kr.

You’ll also be able to use Flickr2Twitter from your mobile, with a new custom email address that’s generated once you authorize Twitter posting. The new address is the same as your old one, but appends a “2twitter” to the alias. Just send a photo from your phone to this address and your photo will be posted both to Flickr and Twitter.

Essentially, this is TwitPic for existing Flickr users. Twi

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Comments (5)

Wpbasti,

Jul 01, 2009

Was only a time question and finally it is available. Good thing.

Matik72,

Jul 01, 2009

Yay! :-)

Rorowe,

Jul 01, 2009

Since TwitPic has ignored my request for Flickr archival (the way BrightKite's image posts do), Flickr2Twitter is exactly what I wanted.

Albertrevette,

Jul 02, 2009

think what twitter look like with the photo, when most of people twitt with one line sentence, it is going to only foto on the page with very little not relevant text