How to Tweet Flickr Photos

I'm a Flickr user. I have all of my photos online where I can keep track of them in one convenient place. When I started using Twitter I was a bit annoyed that Twitter photo services stored my photos all over the place. I wanted to keep them all in one place, and that place was Flickr. I guess Flickr read my mind and has come to the rescue with a way to tweet your Flickr photos. Here are the steps.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• A Flickr account
• A Twitter account

1. Flickr

   On Flickr there is some account preparation to do so that you can upload photos to Flickr and send a tweet and URL to Twitter simultaneously. Log in to your Flickr account. Choose Twitter from the Add a Blog Page (see Resources below for links).

2. Twitter

   In your account settings for Email you should now have a unique email address for posting to Flickr/Twitter simultaneously from your mobile phone or by email. If you've already been posting to Flickr by email or phone, you are familiar with this address, but the new one contains 2twitter in the address. Your new address for mailing photos will be something like [e-mail]

3. Add that new email address to your address books. Be sure to indicate that this email is for Flickr2Twitter, because you probably have another email address that will post photos only on Flickr in your address book. You need to be able to choose between them when mailing in a photo.

4. Use this email address and the photo will upload to Flickr and automatically send a Twitter update. The subject line of the message will be both the Flickr title and the tweet. You have only 116 characters for your message; the rest will be a special short Flic.kr URL.

5. Flickr2Twitter

   What if the photo is already on Flickr? You can still send a tweet about it to Twitter. Use the Blog This button on an individual photo page. Pick Twitter from your list of blogs and you can tweet the URL of an existing Flickr photo to your Twitter account.

Resources

• Flickr Add a Blog Page