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How-tos: posting from facebook and flickr

August 24, 2007 · 9 Comments

A couple of users have sent me their how-to guides to post certain info to twitter using twitterfeed, which could be helpful to others.

Jeff Sandquist’s excellent post describes how to post your facebook status updates to twitter, while EJ Fox writes in with details of how he posts his mobile flickr posts to twitter:

I use Flickr’s mobile upload feature, where I email a photo to flickr using my private email address and it automatically adds it to my photostream. Usually these things are relevant to my recent Twitter updates (For example the other day I saw a car fire on a highway, I wrote a quick twitter update about it and then uploaded a photo).

Flickr allows you to add certain tags to photos updated via their mobile address, so I simply took the RSS feed of my photos with the ‘mobile’ tag, and used twitterfeed to automatically post them.

Basically the URL is:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?
id=[USER_ID]&tags=mobile&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

You can change the ID to your own (you can find out your own ID by logging into flickr and going to this page which shows your ID on the right).

A full screenshot of my settings can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pseudoplacebo/1214679016/

Thanks to both of you!

Categories: twitterfeed

9 responses so far ↓

  • Christine Herron // September 11, 2007 at 5:45 am

    I’ve been trying to feed in my Facebook status updates, but the URL won’t resolve inside twitterfeed. The same URL works fine when entered into the browser address bar. Do you know if Facebook is protecting the feed in some way? (I’ve checked privacy settings but coudn’t identify a setting that would make a difference…all choices in dropdowns are limited to all/some networks etc.)

  • twitterfeed // September 12, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    Christine - could you let me know the feed URL (if you don’t want to post it, mail it to me privately at mario@menti.net). Other people are posting facebook status to twitter using twitterfeed, and I’m not aware of any particular issues..

  • dennyhalim // October 8, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    why all my twitter post from twitterfeed started with 20???
    what if i forgot my login? i forgot which openid i used to login? is it my wordpress id? or livejournal? how can i know??

    tia
    http://twitter.com/dennyhalim

  • twitterfeed // October 8, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    dennyhalim: they start with “20″ because that’s what you put into the “pre-string” field. Just blank that out and it twitterfeed won’t use it.
    Re. the openid you used, if you’ve forgotten it, contact me privately (email mario@menti.net) and I’ll let you know the OpenID URL you used for accessing twitterfeed.

  • Chris LaBarbera // October 13, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    This is a great post. I always wanted to know how to send to Flickr from my PDA. This makes it easy. Thanks!

  • nbr // October 22, 2007 at 3:06 am

    I blogged about a similar strategy for posting Flickr images to Twitter. I also built a Yahoo! Pipe that may be handy for people who want to limit the length of their posts. Blog post is here: http://snipr.com/1qewu

  • Monofachnab // October 25, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    Hi everyone,

    I’m just starting here. And it seems like a great forum.

    I just wanted to give a friendly “how’s it going” to all of you here.

    :)

    -Taylor

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