Fred, I know you are aware of SnapTweet, but I just wanted you to know we've recently added auto-tweeting based on a Flickr tag like Twittergram has. Best.
Adam Kalsey
· 2 years ago
A friend of mine runs http://beenup2.com which allows people to photo stream their life. Send a photo from your phone, attach some text and a location, and all your friends can see it, comment in it, etc.
Sort of like a combination of Flickr, twitter, and loopt.
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
does it let you keep your photos on Flickr?
Timothy Post
· 2 years ago
Fred:
Thank you for mentioning that you use MMS with an email address. I was unaware that one could send MMS to an email address. You just saved me perhaps 2 hours this week trying at Beeline here in Krasnodar trying to get my mobile working with email.
This Twittergram service from Dave is going to be great for me because so much of the things I "discover" here happen when I'm out and about. By the time I get back to the office the urge to share has passed.
Is it possible for there to be an actual low resolution photo delivered inside the actual message? Over here trying to click through a link to the photo is painfully slow.
Bolshoye spaseeba!
Jim Kerr
· 2 years ago
Why not just use Kyte?
Andreas Lienemann
· 2 years ago
Fred, there is actually another way of doing that which I find even more convenient using TwitterFeed http://www.twitterfeed.com .
I use Shozu http://www.shozu.com to upload some (but not all) photos taken on my mobile to Flickr. Whenever Shozu uploads a photo it automatically tags it with 'Shozu' in Flickr.
In Flickr you can create a customized feed url for any tag you want. I simply take the feed url for the tag 'Shozu' and give it to TwitterFeed.
This way you can not only choose which photos are getting uploaded, tagged with 'Shozu' and subsequently appear as tweets but also are they being uploaded in the background while you use your phone for other things and Shozu seems to be very reliable.
Something else I really like about Twitterfeed is that it offers OpenID for authentication, which is not only very safe but also means there's one password & username less for me to remember.
Andreas Lienemann
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
that sounds like a similar solution and i'll have to try it out.
thanks
fred
Dan Buell
· 2 years ago
I have played with Twitter for a very long time but honestly I don't think the "rave" is going to last. From a pure functionality perspective if you explore the mediums whereby you can Twitter (blogs, facebook, etc.) you can already text (and mms) directly into posts, etc. Each of those web asset hosts also can notify you via cell phone on recent posts, etc.
That relegates Twitter to being an exciting tool only to those who's social circle actively and regularly uses the product. Perhaps it is the friends that I keep but I have never had the opportunity to follow anyone's Twitters.
I intend to play with it some more because when I read Fred's posts, I feel like I'm really missing something but for the life of me, I can't figure out what it might be...
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
relegates is not the right word because you describe exactly why twitter is so great in your second paragraph.
get/find some friends on twitter and you'll see what you've been missing
fred
joe lazarus
· 2 years ago
Interesting. Your post inspired me to try to create a similar solution for location / map information. I'm not a developer so it's a little rough around the edges, but in less than an hour I was able to hack something together using just RSS and some third party tools. I now have a special email address that I can send messages to from my cell that allows me to include a TinyURL link to a Google Map indicating the specific location related to my Twitter status like this: http://twitter.com/joelaz/statuses/318918342
If you're curious, here's how it works:
1) I created a private Y! Group with me as the as the sole member as a means of converting the email to RSS. Each Y! Group comes with a group email address and an RSS feed for all the messages sent to that address. I send a message to my group with my status message as the email subject and a location in the body of the email. The RSS feed looks like this: http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/lazmap/rss
3) I used TwitterFeed.com to periodically check the Pipes RSS feed for updates and automatically post them to my Twitter profile. The final result is something similar to Dave's work, though clearly not as robust and scalable.
What I didn't realize until I actually used this was that Google adds a cool element whereby you don't actually need to know the exact address of certain locations. In the example above, I just typed "Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA" on my cell, yet the map is smart enough to know the latitude and longitude of that non-specific location. The same holds true for most restaurants, venues, and public places as long as I append them with the city name.
If you'd like to try it for yourself, just create a Y! Group, edit my Pipe, and submit it to TwitterFeed. That way you can tag your messages with a map when you're heading to the Hamptons, out for dinner, or seeing some live music at a venue in town. Eventually, Twitter could process the map links and record your locations over time... sort of a poor man's GPS.
Thanks as always for the interesting post and props to Dave Winer for his creative thinking.
~ Joe
RacerRick
· 2 years ago
Me thinks I need some friends who twitter.
monkeyleader
· 2 years ago
hmm not sure if its working? Just tried to link mine without joy - still waiting on the update?
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
I tried it a little earlier and it didn't seem to go through for me either.
Andy Swan
· 2 years ago
Ya didn't work for me....must have some kind of net-worth filter ;) </badjoke>
mdy
· 2 years ago
Hi Fred:
Thanks for your detailed write-up! There was enough detail in there for me to try it out for myself. 8-)
Also, I wanted to share a minor note -- Flickr will allow you to specify tags for each photo aside from the default tags on the Flickr Upload by Email page)... so you're not stuck creating a tweet each time you upload a photo via email.
You add tags for each photo either in the subject line or in body of the email message. Detailed instructions are available here. I just tested the custom-tagging feature and it worked fine with my photos.
Thanks and cheers!
Ok?
· 2 years ago
If you don't need to store the photos in your flickr account then you can use sites like zannel, mixelpix, Yappd or pixxie. Photo Twitter clones are popping up all over.
brian
· 2 years ago
Thank you for sharing these steps. I was meaning to write and ask how you do this.
Brian McNitt
· 2 years ago
What are you using for Flickr Username? I've tried using my Flickr login username, the URL style user (i.e. - 15760725@N05), and my friendly URL username and nothing works. Flickrtotwitter returns, "Can't save your Flickr-to-Twitter info because The server, api.flickr.com, returned error code 1: User not found." Tried all three username formats with two different Flickr accounts but get the same error.
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
I am using my login username
Maybe the service is down?
Brian McNitt
· 2 years ago
Did some more testing. Created new Flickr and Twitter accounts and got it to work but it won't work with my original/primary Flickr account even though Dave's app now says that all is well (i.e. - "Your Flickr-to-Twitter info was saved."). The only difference I can think of between the two Flickr accounts is that I created a friendly URL on the Flickr account that doesn't work (i.e. - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcnitt/). Perhaps this throws a wrench in the works?
** Dave: if you read this, here is a bug test case for you. Try using Flickr account: brian.mcnitt
(Fred: sorry to turn your blog into the unofficial flickrtotwitter support forum.)
Pierro
· 1 year ago
Take a look on AutoPostr - > Flickr + Twitter http://simpl.es/dwEPU there you can find a link to SnapTweet too
salut
jarofed
· 1 year ago
Thank you for this tip! I never know, how to post photos from my mobile phone to Flickr. I use twitterfeed to redirect them to Twitter! And it looks really great!
asata
· 8 months ago
thanks. this was very useful.
Ritu
· 4 months ago
Thanks you sooo much for this! I'd been struggling with twitterberry & twipic forever and am so happy to have finally found a workaround.
All Comments
Sort of like a combination of Flickr, twitter, and loopt.
Thank you for mentioning that you use MMS with an email address. I was unaware that one could send MMS to an email address. You just saved me perhaps 2 hours this week trying at Beeline here in Krasnodar trying to get my mobile working with email.
This Twittergram service from Dave is going to be great for me because so much of the things I "discover" here happen when I'm out and about. By the time I get back to the office the urge to share has passed.
Is it possible for there to be an actual low resolution photo delivered inside the actual message? Over here trying to click through a link to the photo is painfully slow.
Bolshoye spaseeba!
I use Shozu http://www.shozu.com to upload some (but not all) photos taken on my mobile to Flickr. Whenever Shozu uploads a photo it automatically tags it with 'Shozu' in Flickr.
In Flickr you can create a customized feed url for any tag you want. I simply take the feed url for the tag 'Shozu' and give it to TwitterFeed.
This way you can not only choose which photos are getting uploaded, tagged with 'Shozu' and subsequently appear as tweets but also are they being uploaded in the background while you use your phone for other things and Shozu seems to be very reliable.
Something else I really like about Twitterfeed is that it offers OpenID for authentication, which is not only very safe but also means there's one password & username less for me to remember.
Andreas Lienemann
thanks
fred
That relegates Twitter to being an exciting tool only to those who's social circle actively and regularly uses the product. Perhaps it is the friends that I keep but I have never had the opportunity to follow anyone's Twitters.
I intend to play with it some more because when I read Fred's posts, I feel like I'm really missing something but for the life of me, I can't figure out what it might be...
get/find some friends on twitter and you'll see what you've been missing
fred
http://twitter.com/joelaz/statuses/318918342
If you're curious, here's how it works:
1) I created a private Y! Group with me as the as the sole member as a means of converting the email to RSS. Each Y! Group comes with a group email address and an RSS feed for all the messages sent to that address. I send a message to my group with my status message as the email subject and a location in the body of the email. The RSS feed looks like this:
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/lazmap/rss
2) I created a Y! Pipe that reformats the RSS from Y! Groups and converts my location description into a Google Maps URL. A new RSS feed is generated by the Pipe with the updated data needed for Twitter. You can see the Pipe and it's RSS output here:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=wkT8...
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=wkT89...
3) I used TwitterFeed.com to periodically check the Pipes RSS feed for updates and automatically post them to my Twitter profile. The final result is something similar to Dave's work, though clearly not as robust and scalable.
What I didn't realize until I actually used this was that Google adds a cool element whereby you don't actually need to know the exact address of certain locations. In the example above, I just typed "Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA" on my cell, yet the map is smart enough to know the latitude and longitude of that non-specific location. The same holds true for most restaurants, venues, and public places as long as I append them with the city name.
If you'd like to try it for yourself, just create a Y! Group, edit my Pipe, and submit it to TwitterFeed. That way you can tag your messages with a map when you're heading to the Hamptons, out for dinner, or seeing some live music at a venue in town. Eventually, Twitter could process the map links and record your locations over time... sort of a poor man's GPS.
Thanks as always for the interesting post and props to Dave Winer for his creative thinking.
~ Joe
Thanks for your detailed write-up! There was enough detail in there for me to try it out for myself. 8-)
Also, I wanted to share a minor note -- Flickr will allow you to specify tags for each photo aside from the default tags on the Flickr Upload by Email page)... so you're not stuck creating a tweet each time you upload a photo via email.
You add tags for each photo either in the subject line or in body of the email message. Detailed instructions are available here. I just tested the custom-tagging feature and it worked fine with my photos.
Thanks and cheers!
Maybe the service is down?
** Dave: if you read this, here is a bug test case for you. Try using Flickr account: brian.mcnitt
(Fred: sorry to turn your blog into the unofficial flickrtotwitter support forum.)
there you can find a link to SnapTweet too
salut