Comments on: Why you should NOT be using TwitPic, TwitVideo or any other Twitter media sharing service.

By: Steven Bullen

Steven Bullen — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:24:18 +0000

I have written a TwitPic Exporter that will make it easy to grab all your pictures from them. now include an importer for Flickr, WordPress, MobyPicture and yFrog. Posterous importer will be coming in the next day or two as well.
http://export-twitpic.stevenbullen.com/

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Don’t read this you’ll hate it | My Blog — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:49:59 +0000

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By: Brian Crawford

Brian Crawford — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:57:13 +0000

I agree to an extent, but I personally don’t use TwitPic and my blog in the same manner. On my blog I craft posts and include good quality pictures to keep for the ages. To TwitPic I send poor quality images from my iPhone of where I am and what I’m doing, so that followers will see what’s up with me at the time. I wouldn’t want to spam my blog with that sort of content – it serves a different purpose than that of my blog, and I wouldn’t mind if it were to disappear some day.

By: dicloniusreaper

dicloniusreaper — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:47:31 +0000

This post is fucking lame as hell. WHAT THE FLYING FUCK?

By: tivon

tivon — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:22:21 +0000

I agree in principle with what your post is suggesting.

I encourage everyone to brand their own name. Using their own server and domain.

HOWEVER, the honest reason why it’s very difficult is that such services like twitpic, yfrog, tweetphoto, pixli ect. ect. all have some sort of built in functionality into 3rd party social media apps such as Twitter, Seesmic, TweetDeck, ect. ect.

If a user is sharing their media sporadically on their mobile device, it’s not very ideal to exit out of the application, open up an email, or photogallery…select the photos you want, enter an e-mail address, title, content ect. ect. That’s not very intuitive at all, and in the age of mobile devices which lack keyboard to enter all this metadata….the solution which lets you share media with the least amount of screen clicks is always probably going to win.

If there were embedded app, 1 click solutions, that allowed you to upload a photo (to your personal server) Then a script on that server which takes that photo, once uploaded, creates a blog post, post to twitter, facebook ect. ect…That would make sense. But currently, there are not easy solutions like that on mobile platforms.

3rd party apps provide that functionality, unfortunately for the blogger, and website host, pre-determines which services they want to include in their apps.

I definitely agree with you in concept, and philosophy….however, the chain or process command it takes to simply share media isn’t as easy as 3rd party twitter apps makes it. So the 3rd party twitter apps win when it comes to sharing media, and the services who allow that media sharing possible reap the benefits.

Too many extra clicks and steps when trying to share media using your own domain and server, and not enough innovative ways to share it across platforms with minimal clicks, when the goal for most people is to get those photos out to facebook and twitter anyway, not simply their blog or website. People aren’t typically waiting on someone’s blog to click their shared photos, they most definitely do a majority of that type of lurking on facebook and twitter.

Great idea, great post, great conversation to spark, much appreciated.

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Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:19:28 +0000

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By: Gabriella

Gabriella — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:05:33 +0000

What a great idea.. maybe some programmer ought to come up with this! Hey when you find it let me know would be something to look into.

By: Gabriella

Gabriella — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:02:43 +0000

Sometimes the most obvious plan is sitting in front of you…but, due to other pressing projects, ideas, life you just never see it. As a matter of fact I recently read an article about why people should stop using flickr (picture sharing tool owned by Yahoo) it had more of a political slant on it. A very good point on their part regarding Yahoo & Chinese dissidents but that’s going off topic. Thanks for a great light bulb moment.

By: Christian DE NEEF

Christian DE NEEF — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:08:27 +0000

I think that one should look at the circumstances of use (use cases) for all these tools. I would use twitpic and similar occasionally, for a picture that sits on my iphone and accompanies/illustrates a tweet. Why? It’s instantaneous, easy and straightforward, it will be gone in a few hours… it fits the volatile nature of twitter. And I would use flickr, posterous, or wordpress for a picture that comes on my blog/website and accompanies/illustrates a post. Why? It’s slightly more work, but it comes with functionality that allow tagging, content management, etc. and it will still be there next year (most probably) or even a decade from now (maybe).

Twitpic may disappear, and its content with it, but wordpress (should it disappear) may leave an opportunity to backup/export all your content…

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