Originally uploaded by David Myers
I’m actually blogging this from Flickr right now, but wanted to let everyone know that Flickr has a great service called Flickr2Twitter. It lets you tweet your Flickr photos from both Flickr’s website or mobile using a specially formulated email address.
To activate it, under Account Settings, go to Extend Flickr and choose to add a blog (must be logged in). For the blog service type, choose Twitter. Then you’ll be asked to authorize Flickr on Twitter’s website. Always check to make sure the site you’re being directed to is really Twitter by examining the URL in the address bar. Otherwise you could be tricked into a phishing scam.
Is it time to say goodbye to TwitPic? Maybe. Flickr tweets the subject line of your message from your mobile posts to the special email address (note that it’s different from your normal posting address) and appends a flic.kr URL to your photo at the end. Or, you can choose to blog any photo on Flickr and when choosing which blog, select Twitter and it will tweet it instead.