ideas worth stealingHey Tumblr—update Twitter for me, would ya?
Dear Tumblr:
My wife recently imagined the possibility of being able to take a picture on her phone and post it to a feed. Essentially, this would be Twitter for photographs—Twitter with MMS support. Great idea, but I don’t have the will or desire to build it myself. So here’s a related idea I’m hoping you’ll steal.
The work flow:
- Access your Tumblr account and add your Twitter login information to your preferences
- Post something to Tumblr
- Tumblr automatically updates Twitter
If you post a photo, a link is posted to Twitter. If you write a text post, its title and a link is posted to Twitter. If you post a quote, the quote is posted to Twitter (if too long, it becomes a link). And so on. This way, you can take a photograph with your phone, email it to Tumblr, and have a link automatically show up on Twitter.
Technically, this could be a simple matter of re-purposing the information that is saved to the database when a Tumblr post is created. If it’s a photo post, for example, you grab the permalink for it, convert it to a TinyURL, and send it via API to Twitter.
Steal this idea. It could make Tumblr a lot more popular.
Thanks for listening. Let me know if you decide to give it a shot. If so, a nod to my site would be much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Me.
Posted by Robert on March 29th, 2008
6 comments
Well i dont know about tumbler actually offering this, but its totally doable now.
Just log into twitterfeed and supply them with the rss for the tumblr feed. And voilla! Tubmler posts to twitter for you.
is this similar to what she was thinking?
A friend uses it for posting photos from her phone, and the post appears on her twitter feed when she does. I have never used it.
you might also try dave winer’s twittergram for photos (he 1st made it for posting mp3s, but his photo script is cool).
http://ma.gnolia.com/people/quepol/bookmarks/hehabiw
basically, enter your flickr, twitter, and/or pownce info and when you post a picture to flickr with a certain tag it automagically gets posted to twitter and/or pownce, too.
Excellent suggestions, one and all. Thanks for the info!
I’ve set up TwitterFeed to update Twitter whenever I post to Tumblr, and I’ve passed along the info about Twitxr to my wife, sure that it will do what she imagined. I’ll let her know about TwitterGram as well.
Thanks again!
i use twittergram to post to twitter and pownce.
http://twitter.com/quepol/statuses/779815886
email any photo from your phone to flickr and include your specific twittergram tag. e.g. in this case i added the following text to the email after the photo:
Tags: dog lola twittergram
Posted on May 5th, 2008