Twitter Your Flickr

Short URLs come in handy when tweeting a link. Getting a short URL for a Flickr photo used to be a pain, but a while back they decided to make life a little easier for us Flickr/Twitter users.

Flickr has had the “Blog This” feature for quite some time. It’s a handy feature that allows you to post to your blog from a photo. They have taken that same thought and applied it to Twitter. All you need to do is connect your Flickr account to your Twitter account.

1. Log into Flickr and head to your account page.
2. Click the tab “Extending Flickr”
3. Add or edit “Your blogs”
4. Choose Twitter from the “Add a blog” helper
5. Authenticate your Twitter account – head over to your Twitter settings on Twitter.com and make sure you approve Flickr in your “Connections” tab

You are all set to start tweeting your Flickr photos! To do this, just jump over to the photo you want to send out. Above the photo you’ll see all the things you can do with that particular photo.

Click on the “Blog This” button and choose your Twitter account. Flickr will then grab the short URL for you and put it in a Twitter post.

Nice and easy!

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