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:

1. Access your Tumblr account and add your Twitter login information to your preferences
2. Post something to Tumblr
3. 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.