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February 1, 2010 • 12:23 pm 0

Twitter App: Upload Twitter Photos To Flickr Using Tweetie 2

Are you tired of waiting for developers and Apple  to update twitter clients for photos with better photo services? Ever wanted the option to upload photos to your Flickr account instead of Twitpic? You’d probably want to tweet them to. And you can, if you’re using Tweetie 2.

Nclude, the agency that redesigned Mashable, VentureBeat and Ogilvy PR web sites, developed a solution and it’s called Godzilla! This twitter client for photos let’s you upload photos to flickr from Tweetie 2. It’s really simple:

  • Go to Godzilla
  • Allow Godzilla access to your Twitter and Flickr account
  • Add  your unique url into Tweetie 2 settings  as  an “image service API endpoint.
  • Go try this Twitter client for photos right now.

Stop waiting on developers and Apple. Start uploading your photos to Flickr instead of the alternatives using Tweetie 2. Serious photographers needed.

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January 14, 2010 • 11:05 am 1

Flickr4Twitter – post photos to Flickr

Flickr4Twitter is a very new and raw site at this time but will allow you to post from Tweetie 2 to Flickr or via their website.  It uses oAuth and allows you to see what you posted and what other photos have been uploaded and tagged.

I wish there was more to say, but it is alpha and doesn’t have a completed UI yet.

ReTweet Me

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September 30, 2009 • 9:37 am 0

Pichirp: Instantly Upload Images to Twitter and Facebook

Pichirp is a mobile Twitter client for the iPhone that allows you to send images to Twitter or upload audio messages to Posterous. The difference between Pichirp and similar apps is that photos will be instantly uploaded to your social network of choice. Current networks availble include:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Posterous

Image hosting services supported by Pichirp include:

  • yfrog
  • Twitpic
  • Tweetphoto
  • Twitgoo
  • Pikchur

This app will run you $.99, which is less than you paid for the coffee you drink every morning.

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September 25, 2009 • 10:38 am 0

SimplyTweet – iPhone app with push notification

SimplyTweet has a long list of features for a sleek looking iPhone application.  The push support was the highlight for everyone I showed the demo too.  A partial list of features is:

  • Configurable push notification sounds
  • Themes
  • Saved views (create groups of friends, etc)
  • Photos search
  • Saved notes for accounts
  • Multiple accounts support, with quick switch support
  • HootSuite integration: importing of Twitter accounts from HootSuite
  • Support for updating user profiles from within SimplyTweet, including profile picture
  • Bookmarklet Support
  • Landscape drafting mode (both Tweets and DM)
  • Landscape view for builtin web browser
  • Tweetshrink support (both tweets and DM)
  • URL shortening
  • Send direct messages longer than 140 characters
  • Unread tweet indicators for all themes
  • Instapaper Support
  • Posterous Support (multiple photos and video upload) with hashtags converted to Posterous tags

That right there is a great reason to go to the AppStore to track this one down.  They even had a YouTube demo available if you aren’t ready to do the install.

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September 14, 2009 • 7:40 am 0

FolExt – another photo sharing for Twitter

FolExt is joining the many ranks of photo sharing sites.  They utilize oAuth and allow you to upload, point to a URL or SnapShot a photo.

There is voting for photos, sharing, and even reporting others for abuse.  A pretty much full features site with a clean UI.  There is a most viewed section on the right an the homepage updates as you refresh with new pictures coming through the service.

One thing I did notice as I tried to read the FAQ, Privacy or anything else is that all the links pointed back to the homepage, so I could get no other information.

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August 24, 2009 • 7:17 am 0

Snapatar – from webcam to Twitter avatar, quickly

Snapatar is a simple page with one purpose. It prompts you to allow flash control and access to your webcam and then your Twitter username and password.  While I wished they would use oAuth, they don’t as of yet.  They do address it in the FAQ:

No OAuth? Is this safe?

The short answer is yes! Snapatar was built using Flash, which makes OAuth a little more complicated to implement. Snapatar does not store your password in any way or share it with anyone.

Once you grant access to your webcam for the session, you click the big yellow Snap button and it takes your picture and uploads it to be your new Twitter avatar!  You can set a timer with it and even mirror the image in the advanced settings.

They had the current stats listed but I am hoping we can help them blow it away

Stats

Total avatar updates: 256 (108 users)
Tweets sent: 164 (64%)

By default it does have a button checked to send a tweet alerting everyone you used the service to change your avatar, but they allow you to uncheck it, so no huge deal.

Lastly, there is a help balloon but it is not active until you allow camera access.  I wish they had a link somewhere with some About information well before I used the service, but we did it for you as usual!

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August 3, 2009 • 6:52 am 1

TweetMojo – Extras For Your Tweets

TweetMojo is the latest service to hit the scene that provides Twitter users with the ability to share videos, photos, and documents via the site. While this might not be new to you, Tweetmojo has plans to “be able to broadcast exactly what your doing in real time via a live webcam stream as tweets!”  Sounds like a move into Twitcam‘s space.

Tweetmojo also have the ability to expand your tweet, or make it long through the use of a shortening url. If you’re looking to do a little more in just one place, Tweetmojo might be the perfect tool for you.

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July 31, 2009 • 10:36 am 0

Twtgal – share photo galleries

Twtgal allows you to upload multiple pictures and then tweet a shortened URL to share them as a gallery.  A great way to show off a set.  You could simply make a collection on Flickr or other photos service and use some short URL for that gallery, but not every one would get that either.  The site itself summarizes the service as:

Just upload your pictures, get short url for the gallery, tweet it!
Your first tweet with gallery url will be imported and shown on the gallery page. Last 20 tweets about your gallery will be shown below the images. You can set the style of the gallery and few other options

I didn’t upload a set as most of mine are already on Flickr.  The bonus of the site was the lack of the requirement to provide them your Twitter password.  You can bookmark the admin link to your uploaded gallery to be able to get back to manage it.  You can upload a maximum of 14 images in the free account with 2mb limit for each picture.  Images all get resized to 800×600.

The site is ad supported and allows the galleries to be browsed or played in a slideshow.  Lastly you can also email pictures in and get a reply with the link for the gallery.

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July 1, 2009 • 9:23 am 0

Twicli – upload photos and videos using the Picli engine

Twicli allows you to upload images and videos for free and use conversation tracking around them.  Right from their own blog:

Twicli is a free service that allows users to upload both photos and videos through the Twicli platform and display them to their friends on Twitter.  Users can upload photos and videos and comment on each, these comments are then broadcast on twitter via the means of @replies. The Twicli frontpage features the most recent content uploaded by Twitter users.

Their list of features was quite impressive for a reson to use their service:

  • Interface – Twicli has been designed to ‘feel like twitter’
  • Sets – Twicli supports sets of photos and videos, and you can mix both content types in a set. Don’t spam your friends with photo after photo, just upload them all at once into a set and your friends will see all your content from one tweet. Perfect for photo/video blogging your trips – now you can send a lot more photos at once (without annoying anyone and losing followers)
  • New Trends – Twicli generates it’s own trends. Meaning you see what trending topics are hot rightnow in regards to photos and videos – not the general Twitter trends.
  • View All Sizes – As user’s photos are uploaded they are resized, but the full resolution version is always available. Also, being able to see what image sizes are available makes it easier for bloggers to grab a smaller size if needed.
  • OAuth – Twicli is one of the first apps to fully integrate Twitter’s implementation of OAuth. Twicli is totally safe and secure as users never need to enter their login information.
  • iPhone 3.0 Compatible – We’re very excited about iPhone 3.0. Once it’s released, creating photo/video sets on Twicli will be a breeze as you can attach more than 1 piece of content to an email.
  • Videos – Upload your videos to Twicli through the site or via email. There is no limit on video length (like some other services), only on filesize (50MB).

I think sets is one of the most pleasing things to see.  Most of the other services treat each photo as a tweet (or video).  But they allow you to group and mix them into one tweet to please those followers!

As you can see, they are really trying to offer a full feature set.  Picli itself has a fremuim model for how they do photo and video management, so there is a monetization plan for them which is nice to see.

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June 25, 2009 • 12:01 pm 0

Twitcaps – a realtime image search and browser

Twitcaps scans all of Twitter for images and let’s you search, browse or capture them.

From the Twitcaps interface, you may capture an image for later use, re-tweet the image on your own Twitter feed, or share the image on any number of social linking services.

Twitcaps currently supports ~7 of the image serving services to Twitter, which was most of the main ones anyone uses.  All of the standard Twitter search terms apply when looking for images and you can then capture them and retweet them in your timeline (it will then use Twitpic to do this).  Floating your mouse over any image pops up the tweet itself and who sent it.  If they add in the ability to follow that person, that would be a bonus.

Recent trends are shown in the upper right, giving you a quick view on events as they take place.  This becomes a unique way to see everything pictorial around an event, instead of all the commentary mingled in.

You can authenticate to view friends current caps or browse the public stream via RSS.  Basically this is a viewing window into the world of Twitter images.

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