Ready for a few testers 
If you want to test the new Flickr-to-Twitter page on twittergram.com, send me a private message.
I only have 10 invites for Round One. Anyone can register for the service, but only approved testers will be activated.
I want to do this slowly. The service is going poll your Flickr RSS 2.0 feed quite frequently, so I want to see how much server bandwidth it’s going to use.
Update #1: Okay, I’m going to try to quickly add support for special tags, so that not every Flickr picture you upload ends up in your Twitter stream. This was the other Fred Wilson request, and other people are asking for it. Obviously it needs to be in there. First I have to figure out how Flickr adds them to the RSS feed.
Update #2: The tag is there in the feed. But I gotta editorialize. Why did they invent their own category element instead of using the RSS 2.0 category element? Their new element appears to work exactly like the one they NIH’d. They didn’t follow Postel’s very good law there at Yahoo. No matter. I’m going to use it anyway. End of editorial.
Posted by mal on August 9, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I tried sending a private message via twitter did you get it?
thx,
mal
Posted by Arek Dreyer on August 9, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I added a photo to flickr with a really long semi URL for a title: http://www.arekdreyer.com/what-happens-when-you-use-a-really-long-url-I-am-submitting-this-by-email-to-flickr-and-then-twittergram-will-pick-it-up
The twittergram service picked this up, sent it through tinyurl, and the tweet is just a tinyurl. No tinyurl to the actual flickr photo though.
Just like I thought it would.
Posted by Arek Dreyer on August 9, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Here’s the original.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arekd/1065335634/
Posted by Julian Bond on August 9, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Try http://twitterfeed.com Flickr has RSS. Twitterfeed can import it into Twitter. Doesn’t that get the job done?
Posted by Donovan Watts on August 10, 2007 at 9:55 am
Yay! Works great for me. Thank you, Dave.
Posted by Adam Donkus on September 24, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Is this service still active? Just wondering, if I did it correctly or not. I posted a pic and did not see a tweet.
Posted by Len on October 6, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Just tried Flickr-to-Twitter using email from iPhone and “twitter” tag . Photo made it to Flickr but so far hasn’t shown up as a Tweet.