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I love using Twitter and in general it’s a near-perfect service.
The 140 character service means that people are forced to be precise and coherent (no windy blowhards!)
But the one thing that Twitter does NOT allow, by default, is the ability to post pictures.
That is whereTwitPicandFlickrcomes in.
We’ll also see how they stack up against one another.
I finally tried it out today and I am amazed at how easy it is to use.
you better give TwitPic your Twitter credentials and after logging in, you will see aPhoto Uploadpage.
But TwitPic also has a few other features worth mentioning.
TwitPic also gives you a unique email address which you’re free to use to email pictures in.
The whole point of using TwitPic is to post pictures on Twitter.
TwitPic also has aPublic Timelineof all the photos passing through their site.
This seems to be a rather amazing oversight.
In that case, another possibility is Flickr.
Flickr connects to your Twitter account using their API and so no password is inputted.
It’s all done through “tokens”.
Anyway, back to Flickr.
Here’s how to post to Twitter using Flickr.
Go to the picture on Flickr that you want to post to Twitter.
you better be logged into Flickr first and it doesn’t have to be your picture.
you could tweet any picture on Flickr you want.
Twitter is near the bottom.
Flickr will then connect to Twitter and Twitter will ask you if you want to grant access to Flickr.
Say yes and then you will be redirected back to the Flickr photo page.
As you might see, the link to the photo has already been shrunk into a short Flic.kr URL.
Click “post entry” and then go to your Twitter stream.
You should now see the Tweet there along with the link to the picture.
It’s all done in seconds.
Like Twitpic, Flickr also gives you a unique email address to email your pictures into your Twitter account.
Twicsy just generates lots of random, sometimes pointless, tags for the pictures.
But both offer good search and real-time updating of pictures to Twitter.
