Yahoo enables twittering via Flickr

06/30/2009 - 20:28 / Posted by admin

Flickr lets you post image links to Twitter.

(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)

Yahoo has released a feature that lets people post Flickr photos to their Twitter accounts.

The Twitter2Flickr feature requires that you enable Flickr as an approved application that can tweet under your username.

Then, when you click the "blog this" link above a photo at Flickr, you're presented with the option to twitter it. The tweet will come with a "flic.kr" shortened URL.

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.

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1 comment on "Yahoo enables twittering via Flickr"

Robinson said on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 04:30:

The order in which to sort returned photos. Deafults to date-posted-desc (unless you are doing a radial geo query, in which case the default sorting is by ascending distance from the point specified). The possible values are: domain names date-posted-asc, date-posted-desc, date-taken-asc, date-taken-desc, interestingness-desc, interestingness-asc, and relevance.Geo queries require some sort of limiting agent in order to prevent the database from crying. This is basically like the check against dsl"parameterless searches" for queries without a geo component. A tag, for instance, is considered a limiting agent as are user defined min_date_taken and min_date_upload parameters &emdash; If no limiting factor is passed we return only photos added in the last 12 hours (though we may extend the limit web development in the future).Geo queries require some sort of limiting agent in order to prevent the database from crying. This is basically like the check against "parameterless searches" for queries without a geo component.

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