Are you using Twitterlator and want to upload your “twitter photos” to a “real” photo sharing site like Picasa or Flickr? Well, I wanted to do that but unfortunately Twitterlator doesn’t support uploads to those site … but there is actually a way to get it to work: use Posterous.
Here is how you do it
- Go to Posterous and create your own site
- Link your Posterous account to your Twitter account using the autopost feature of Posterous
- Also add your Flickr or Picasa site as an autopost destination
- Launch Twitterlator and open settings
- Scroll down until you see the “Media Upload Service” section and set Twitterlator to use “Posterous” for the photo service
- Tap “Other Services”, then tap “Posterous”
- Make sure that both the email and password fields are blank. Yes, that is right they should not be set.
- Close the dialog and go back to the normal message view
- Make a test tweet that uploads a photo, wait until you can see what you tweeted. You should now see a tweet from you that includes a “post.ly” link to your image. Also check your Picasa/Flickr account which also should have your image
Note that the tweet will send people to your Posterous site and not your Flickr/Picasa site, but you do have a backup of your image there (which is why I wanted to do this). Another thing worth noting is that you now also can create blog posts (or long tweets) in your email client, send them to Posterous and have Posterous automatically send out a tweet that directs people your Posterous site.
(thanks for the Posterous people for teaching me not to include user/password)