Just signed up for TweetPhoto. I've been a TwitPic user for a long time, but the site can be unreliable, and the interface is pretty poor. Seriously, what's with showing three random photos from the user on the side and no friend connections? Looking forward to sending photos to TweetPhoto going forward.
Jennifer Van Grove
· 7 months ago
Completely agree with you Jeremy. I hate the randomness of the photos displayed under a user. It's impossible to find photos. I would switch to TweetPhoto permanently if it was a part of all my favorite apps/clients.
Rodney_Rumford
· 7 months ago
Jennifer & Jeremy,
We are working with third party app developers so that users can send their photos thru iPhone twitter apps, BlackBerry's, desktop aps, clients, etc.
We are releasing our exhaustive API next week. Our dev team is running as fast as we can and we will let you know when we have some more announcements to make in these areas.
Cheers!
@Rumford Co-Founder of TweetPhoto
Rodney_Rumford
· 7 months ago
Jennifer. Thanks for the kind words about tweetphoto.com The team has been hard at work on this for the past few months and we have more stuff coming down the road. I want to thank all of our users for their feedback and support. We will be working hard to win over users with a better photo sharing experience.
I'm slightly disappointed, too. I've tried many services, but Pikchur still beats them all - it's simple, user-friendly, user-eye-friendy, it posts to many other services (twitter, facebook, brightkite,koornk, plurk...) and the guys behind it are just great! :)
Andy
· 7 months ago
Pretty cool, but I still think the simplicity of twitpic wins out...
Jackie Danicki
· 7 months ago
Another Pikchur devotee here. The service is just awesome - cross-platform posting, super-easy uploading in a variety of methods, and incredible, fast customer service. They've won my loyalty for the long haul.
Justyn
· 7 months ago
Well done Rodney - best of luck and keep the innovation coming!
Justyn Howard Co-Founder Twindexx
Jack
· 7 months ago
http://www.twibeo.com is a tool similar to twitter that lets you share photos and videos directly from the site.
F. Andy Seidl
· 7 months ago
Congrats, Rodney and team on the TweetPhoto launch!
Josue
· 7 months ago
TwitPic finally gets a competitor? WHAT!?!?! Maybe you've missed the boat on Pikchur. Been there for a while now and offers better features than TwitPic currently does.
What about a Pikchur.com mention? It's by far the easiest way to upload pictures to Twitter/Facebook/Flickr!
I've got no affiliation with pikchur, other than a happy user :)
Monica
· 7 months ago
I've been using Natuba http://www.natuba.com for a while now and I love it! It's super easy and I can sync it with Twitter and my blog.
rr
· 7 months ago
TweetPhoto looks like it provides a lot of great features and functionality . . . although many of us don't have a choice regarding where/how our pictures get posted because of the default choices of the Twitter apps we use. Tweetie as an example. If would be nice if you could choose where your images got posted but, at least until now, there hasn't been a real reason to do so.
Kevin Patrick
· 7 months ago
For shame, I do not like that they are storing my password. There is no OAuth connection so the only way they are supporting mobile uploads is by keeping a hold of my password!
Sites have to be responsible and holding third party credentials is very irresponsible.
Two thumbs down.
Kev
Robert Basil
· 7 months ago
Kevin,
Wake up. Nobody offers OAuth connections to Twitter yet. If you want to complain then bitch at Twitter.
Rodney_Rumford
· 7 months ago
Actually we initially built Tweetphoto and had OAuth working solidly. Then when they had a security issue 1 week before our launch they shut it off for 2 days with no advance notice to developers. Very risky to build your site authentication on a non proven technology (tho there are some advantages). We made an executive decision to not use OAuth until it is rock solid. ;)
Cheers! @rumford Co-Founder of TweetPhoto
Jami
· 7 months ago
A new competitor? What about pikchur? I started using pikchur because twitpic was a bit unrealiable (and continues to be). I haven't had any issues with pikchur and it allows you to post into other apps as well. You might want to check them out: www.pikchur.com
NatalieCruz
· 7 months ago
I am going to give this a try!
NatalieCruz
· 7 months ago
This is super cool and I think that it has the potential to be 1000x better than twitpic. That is old and outdated and this is just what we needed super cool interface I just signed up and am going to post a bunch of pics I hope you all enjoy!
I uploaded a photo via email with my BlackBerry. Photo never showed up on TweetPhoto, nor in my Twitter stream (unless there's some sort of really long delay and it shows up later tonight). Only manually uploading via the TweetPhoto site interface directly worked. For mobile uploads, I'm sticking with TwitPic. So, not impressed with the mobile part at all.
playboypaul
· 7 months ago
Well now there's two better options to twitpic tweetphoto and pikchur both are way easier to use than twitpic and both post to multiple services. i use pikchur but i just signed up at tweetphoto and i will be using it 4 awhile im sure
I can't believe ping.fm doesn't get any love for its picture posting. It's my mobile photo posting go-to service. It has its own photo sharing, ability to post to flickr, ability to post to facebook, and update twitter/facebook statuses with links to the pic! Read more about it here: http://pingfm.pbworks.com/Posting-Photos?Search...
Joe Pemberton
· 7 months ago
Where is the Flickr integration? Seriously tired of new social media tangents, new accounts to create, new places to manage my online identity.
Mike
· 7 months ago
I logged on to try it out earlier today and still haven't gotten it to upload a picture from my iPhone. Is the site even up and running? Not real impressed so far.
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· 7 months ago
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Marc Handelman
· 7 months ago
Two criticisms: HTTPS (tunneled) login to twitter via the site is not available by default. Furthermore, they should also implement a tunneled connection for their own sign up and sign in process. They would be doing their (Twitter) users a great service by implementing a secure login method.
ZK@Web Marketing Blog
· 7 months ago
The beauty of TweetPhoto, is that all of these goodies are easily accessible and discoverable from your dashboard view of photos hosted on the site. Tabs across the top navigation make it easy to view your photos, return to favorites, browse friends’ photos, and check out the public stream. Can It Beat The Competition? In the Twitter photo space there’s also Pix.im, yFrog and Twixtr, neither of which have managed to steal any thunder from TwitPic.
Lynnette
· 7 months ago
I agree, I would definitely use TweetPhoto if it worked with the Twitterfon app on the iPhone. It would also be cool if you could import your Twitpic photos into your new TweetPhoto account :-D @FunTimesGuide
cokeramirez
· 7 months ago
does it integrates with twitpic? as in indexing my friends twitpics and showing them on my tweetphoto stream?
If they integrate with twitpic, then they will do the transition easier and they will win the war with their new features...
Mathys
· 7 months ago
Really funny to see this review. We always send our press releases and new features to Mashable, but never get any coverage. Is is because we're not a US company? All praised features are available in Mobypicture and more. Mobypicture also allows users to send video and audio content. There's geolocation and geofencing for groups, event, tagging and we support to cross posting many platforms besides just Twitter. Plus Mobypicture was the first company to offer posting photos to Twitter.
I wish all the players the best of luck and it is great to see more competition. Easy sharing of your adventures is important!
mashable
· 7 months ago
Mathys,
We have covered you - at least 4 times. Granted, these posts are from a long while back, but the idea that we don't cover non-US companies is nonsense - I actually live pretty close to you guys, up in Scotland. :)
Best thing to do is keeping sending in news bites and eventually one will get picked up on.
Pete, in some listings and yes originally when we launched, but if you compare this to the amount of news If sent you since. We relaunched, added video and audio possibilities and multiple other platforms. Did some nice stuff with groups, launched the popular iPhone App.... etc. etc.
But I will keep sending in our news of course :)
Next week we'll launch our activity stream, which is really nice... And we today launched a nice scaler, which, based on the amount of followers fires up extra Amazon Instances to handle the estimated load...
Arne Hulstein
· 7 months ago
I have to offer an alternative. I have seen it has been mentioned in the comments several times, but you should really consider www.mobypicture.com as it has it all and more. And I have used it for almost two years now. It's great.
Jean Wolfe
· 7 months ago
How amazing that you live in Scotland, Pete! The US is so much more dominant in social media that really is extraordinary. I am guessing you are American but maybe not!
Leslie
· 6 months ago
I will have to use TwitPic for now since the TweetPhoto site seems to be down.
Leslie
· 6 months ago
This is the error that I receive: Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.2 Server at www.tweetphoto.com Port 80
All Comments
We are working with third party app developers so that users can send their photos thru iPhone twitter apps, BlackBerry's, desktop aps, clients, etc.
We are releasing our exhaustive API next week. Our dev team is running as fast as we can and we will let you know when we have some more announcements to make in these areas.
Cheers!
@Rumford
Co-Founder of TweetPhoto
Cheers!
Rodney Rumford
Co-Founder Tweetphoto
Justyn Howard
Co-Founder Twindexx
Give it a try, www.Pikchur.com
I've got no affiliation with pikchur, other than a happy user :)
Sites have to be responsible and holding third party credentials is very irresponsible.
Two thumbs down.
Kev
Wake up. Nobody offers OAuth connections to Twitter yet. If you want to complain then bitch at Twitter.
Cheers!
@rumford
Co-Founder of TweetPhoto
Can It Beat The Competition?
In the Twitter photo space there’s also Pix.im, yFrog and Twixtr, neither of which have managed to steal any thunder from TwitPic.
@FunTimesGuide
If they integrate with twitpic, then they will do the transition easier and they will win the war with their new features...
All praised features are available in Mobypicture and more. Mobypicture also allows users to send video and audio content. There's geolocation and geofencing for groups, event, tagging and we support to cross posting many platforms besides just Twitter. Plus Mobypicture was the first company to offer posting photos to Twitter.
I wish all the players the best of luck and it is great to see more competition. Easy sharing of your adventures is important!
We have covered you - at least 4 times. Granted, these posts are from a long while back, but the idea that we don't cover non-US companies is nonsense - I actually live pretty close to you guys, up in Scotland. :)
Best thing to do is keeping sending in news bites and eventually one will get picked up on.
http://mashable.com/2007/08/15/mobypicture-adds...
http://mashable.com/2007/08/24/mobile-photos/
http://mashable.com/2008/05/24/14-more-twitter-...
http://mashable.com/2007/07/09/twitter-mobile-2/
But I will keep sending in our news of course :)
Next week we'll launch our activity stream, which is really nice...
And we today launched a nice scaler, which, based on the amount of followers fires up extra Amazon Instances to handle the estimated load...
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2 Server at www.tweetphoto.com Port 80