New York — Web pioneer Yahoo took a little while, but Flickr has just embraced a new feature that it should have done long ago — “Flickr2Twitter,” this new feature would enable you to uploaded photos directly from your Flickr to your Twitter account.
Flickr also committed itself to keeping and updating a Twitter account. Flickr2Twitter will create a shortened URL for your photo and post this as Tweet to your Twitter account.
Let us start with the Flickr2Twitter development. According to a Flickr representative explained in an email to WebProNews, Flickr2Twitter is “a new way for Flickr members to easily post images to Twitter.”
The Twitter2Flickr feature requires that you enable Flickr as an approved application that can tweet under your username.
Once you have enabled Flickr to use your Twitter credential, a new option in Twitter’s “Blog This” link above a photo at Flickr, you are then given the option to twitter it. The tweet will come with a “flic.kr” shortened URL. Flickr would also give you the chance to compose the 140 character Tweet then append the URL of your photo.
The Flick team also said that mobile posting of photos from Flickr to Twitter, is no longer a dream. All you need to do is to enable your Upload by Email settings in Flickr. Once this is enabled, you can post photos from your Flickr account to your Twitter account by sending the photo or video to the unique Flickr email upload address plus “2Twitter”.
Flickr2Twitter is a nice feature that will surely benefit both Twitter and Flickr but more so for Flickr as Twitter’s popularity will ricochet to Yahoo’s photo uploading service.
Flickr has a large number of users, and its use is amplified by the fact that other sites can make use of Flickr data through an API (application programming interface). The Twitter integration is a modest example of Yahoo’s attempt to make its sites less of a walled garden by working better with other Web properties.
A Twitter search for Flickr photographs indicates that a lot of people are making use of the integration, which had been in beta testing since earlier in June.
This is a cool new feature which would make a lot of Flickr users happy. And yes, this in a way adds a new lease of life to Flickr.