Many people post photos to Twitter via services like TwitPic. Unfortunately, most of those services require the user’s Twitter username and password. And while most users know that it’s not a good idea to give passwords to third party services, many do it anyway, just for convenience sake.
Today photo sharing and hosting site Flickr announced a beta implementation which allows users to post photos from Flickr to Twitter. The service is easy to set up if you already have a Flickr account.
- Authorize Flickr to post to Twitter via OAuth
- Add 2twitter to your Flickr email and save it to your mobile phone (or remember it). It should look like this: yourflickremail2twitter@photos.flickr.com
- Take a picture, open your mobile phone’s email client, add a subject line – this will be your tweet’s text – and send to Flickr
It’s especially great to see Flickr supporting OAuth because FlickrAuth as part of Flickr’s API was certaily a blueprint for creating OAuth.
Well done!
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