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Adding a Twitter type payload to pic posts (that didn't require a pic) would do wonders for Flickr as a social destination.
Just wanted to let ou know that we've released our public API and also added flickr support (pictures get uploaded to your flickr account) You can follow our updates at http://twitxr.com/twitxr
As Alan pointed out one cool thing about twitxr is the geolocation guessing of the iphone native client. With three simple steps (shoot,write,send) you can post a geolocated picture wherever you are.
In my opinion that's our biggest advantage and our key differentiation. It enables us to do cool things like http://twitxr.com/public_timeline/san%20francisco and such
objects like pictures and MP3s could hitch a ride on a Twitter message without using up any of he 140 characters
Keep it simple, stupid.
For posting my pictures to twitter directly from my phone I use www.mobypicture.com, and lately www.autopostr.com to post directly to twitter.
For me, the one thing I like most about Twixtr that I don't get elsewhere (inc. Twittergram) that you don't mention is geotagging. Twixtr seems to do a pretty fair job of guesstimating my location with each image i upload from my iPhone. That's very handy. I don't usually bother geotagging my pics cos I don't have a way to do it while shooting on my camera or my cameraphone, and usually can't be bothered when it comes to uploading them to Flickr.
Then I realized I was sort of missing the point, though I'm still not 100% sure I get what the point actually is. Presumably you're after something that can circumvent the need for messing around under the hood with complicated feed URLs and that's therefore more mainstream-user-friendly. The concept of "payloads" still eludes me somewhat. Why is it better than a tinyurl link inside the update? You lose some of the simplicity and universality of a plain-text-only format, though you add functionality. Is the tradeoff worth it?
Anyhow, just some reactions.
And a feedmaster too.
Saddest about twitxr is that although they seem to focus on iPhone users, their platform even doesn't auto-recognize Mobile Safari. Ever tried to post on the twitxr site with an iphone? Who made that text field 4 (landscape) screens wide?
Even though beta, especially when releasing a platform with an iPhone specific app, this had to be taken care off before releasing.
Considering the competition is pockettweets for twitter.
Is FON failing? It seems like lately he is just coping others ideas. TinyURL, hotornot, Twitter ...
At this rate, entrepreneurs should be careful about pitching him or even approaching his friends/partners
Offers something a little different to Twixtr in that you can do it from any camera phone.
Can anyone recommend a service that does everything - struggling to find the perfect one for me at the moment!
My pix are in the same time "backed-up" on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/damienvanachter/22...)
And, finally, i'm able to post a nice widget on my blog (http://www.bloggingthenews.info/blogging_the_ne...)
my 2 cents
I like twitplus because as well as sending pics to twitter it also lets me securely send files to twitter friends too, without them needing any extra logon or registration (Just receive the file using their twitter username+password).