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TUAW First Look: iPhoto2Twitter
If you use Twitter as much as I do, then you're going to love iPhoto2Twitter, an iPhoto plugin from Blue Crowbar Software. While sending iPhone pictures to Twitter is a piece of cake, it usually takes more steps to prepare a photo on a Mac to become a photo-tweet.The idea of iPhoto2Twitter is simple; as you're going through your iPhoto library checking out your photographic art works, you can tweet them with a few clicks. The plugin, which sells for €4.95 (approx. US$7.00), weighs in at a tiny 356 KB and works very well.
Once the plugin has been installed, tweeting photos is as easy as selecting them, choosing File > Export, and then clicking on the new iPhoto2Twitter tab. Enter your 140 characters of sparkling witticisms, choose a size for the photo, and then click Export to send the photo and tweet. I only found one issue with the plugin; as you can see, the "r" has disappeared from the name:
As a Twitter user (@stevensande) with a huge gallery of photos, I'm going to love using iPhoto2Twitter to share my images with the world, and I'm sure you will too.
Update: Within an hour of this post, Steven from Blue Crowbar had noted the missing "r" in the app (caused by a missing font on my Mac) and released version 1.1 which uses a picture instead of text for the name. That's great service from a software developer!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Maria said 1:21PM on 6-10-2009
Looks very cool. I'll have to add it to my arsenal of Twitter tools.
@mlanger
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Forsakenzoul said 1:30PM on 6-10-2009
Very awesome app, and yes I love tweeting pics :)
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kiltbear64 said 1:55PM on 6-10-2009
or for free you could email it to your twitpic email address.
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Steven Sande said 2:04PM on 6-10-2009
The point of this app is to make tweeting iPhoto pictures as easy as possible - NOT iPhone photos. Tweeting iPhone pics is easy, and it seems like you're possibly confusing the two.
To tweet a photo from an iPhoto library with your method takes multiple steps:
1) Export the photo from iPhoto
2) Open Mail.app
3) Create and write new message
4) Address it to your TwitPic account
5) Attach the photo
6) Send the photo
Much easier to just click on the photo, Export to Twitter, and boom! You're done.
TUAWSteve
Petre said 2:11PM on 6-10-2009
Most Twitter clients will allow you to post your photos via various websites right from their interface. I use Tweetie and you simply drag the photo into the message field, type in your tweet and hit send. The photo is automagically sent to twitpic (or wherever) and linked in your message.
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Joseph said 2:22PM on 6-10-2009
Apple will integrate this. They already have flickr and facebook.
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