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Flickr adds Twitter integration

Mitchell LeBlanc   on 02 July 2009 - 15:08 · 9 comments & 2609 views

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Flickr has launched Twitter integration. The Flickr Blog reports that Twitter functionality has been added to the photo management tool.

You can upload photos to both Flickr and Twitter, or use the functionality to tweet about an already existing photograph. The system will automatically shorten the url using a "flic.kr" URL.

Getting started is simple enough and instructions can be found here.

The Flickr Blog has also provided us with a sample image of a tweeted photo:



This news must come as disconcerting to TwitPic, a website which allows the sharing of photos on Twitter. TwitPic seems to be the most widely used tool for photo sharing on the social networking giant, but this may not be the case in the near future.

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#1 morficus on 02 Jul 2009 - 17:19
I've been wondering why flickr didn't offer this service when twitter just started.
Good to see they are trying to claim their rightfull place in the twitterverse :-P
#2 lunamonkey on 02 Jul 2009 - 17:49
Cool I guess. A one step approach is always preferred. Every thing is linked up now.

Upload a pictute to Flickr > blog to Twitter > syncs with Facebook.
#3 digitalsoft on 02 Jul 2009 - 18:09
Very nifty! Makes sense.
#4 n_K on 02 Jul 2009 - 18:57
Why can't there be more ANTI-twitter/twatter sites.
Hopefully one day that will just die along with facebook and all that other commercialised huge-advert-bases profit crap.
#5 marleyuk on 02 Jul 2009 - 19:50
Love this, now I can have all my pics in the one place.
#6 toadeater on 02 Jul 2009 - 22:34
OK, so who or what hasn't added Twitter support yet? It's going to be everywhere.
#7 +Techno_Funky on 03 Jul 2009 - 05:04
Cool just what I was looking for few days back, however cant we blog a whole set rather than individual photos.
#8 SniperX on 03 Jul 2009 - 07:57
We still can't have the most basic and common functionality of changing the colour of our album pages, but hey, at least we can post our photos to a thoroughly useless micro-blogging website. Today is a good day to be alive!
#9 Alex M on 03 Jul 2009 - 09:26
The client DestroyTwitter has been using this feature for probably just over a month now. Its integrated like TwitPic.

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