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Of course if you want to license a photo you uploaded to Twitpic, just upload a copy to Flickr and license that version instead.

#1 7:07pm May 10th 2011 via Tweetbot for iOS

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Was Twitpic (or yfrog or lockerz) ever advisable? Garish ad-covered websites hiding your photo amongst junk really doesn't appeal.

#2 7:47am May 11th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone

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@revdancatt @blech if Flickr made that easy, ie access from twitter clients, we would. Twutpic et al wld nvr have existed!

#3 7:57am May 11th 2011 via Twitter for Android in reply to revdancatt

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@Bopuc ah, there hangs several tales. Like doing authentication securely then watching FB and Twitter re-establish the password antipattern.

#4 7:59am May 11th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to Bopuc

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@blech Convenience was always the only reason. I'm guilty as charged.

#5 8:00am May 11th 2011 via web in reply to blech

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@blech as a user, I couldn't care less about that crap. They did it and satisfied my need. Now I will go to insragram. ;)

#6 8:01am May 11th 2011 via Twitter for Android in reply to blech

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@Bopuc @blech app realpolitik.

#7 8:05am May 11th 2011 via Twitter for Android in reply to Bopuc

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@blech if you get Flickr directly built into Twitter's app functionality/preferences, then people won't use twitpic anymore! cc/ @BenWard

#8 8:21am May 11th 2011 via Tweetie for Mac in reply to blech

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@arielwaldman Yes they would. Twitpic et al implicitly work using your Twitter identity. No set-up or account pairing or sign up. /cc @blech

#9 8:24am May 11th 2011 via Twitterrific for Mac in reply to arielwaldman

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@arielwaldman @blech @BenWard Down with twitpic!

#10 8:27am May 11th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to arielwaldman

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@BenWard @blech ok, revision: just get Flickr to do all that stuff, then people won't use ugly ad-saturated crap! then again, Facebook.

#11 8:27am May 11th 2011 via web in reply to BenWard

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@Bopuc @blech Flckr has all the APIs needed fr a twttr client. Thing that stopped it was needing a Y! account :/ (there's more 2 that story)

#12 8:58am May 11th 2011 via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to Bopuc

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@BenWard that's good for Twitter & TwitPic, but bad for everyone else. We didn't do bad things that were good for Yahoo (or, tried not to).

#13 9:03am May 11th 2011 via web in reply to BenWard

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@BenWard and clearly, Flickr isn't going to re-base their user system around Twitter. So something has to give - probably user choice. :-(

#14 9:04am May 11th 2011 via web in reply to BenWard

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@blaine @BenWard @blech @tomtaylor well, here's a damn good reason for users to not choose TwitPic: http://is.gd/ETHzM8

#15 9:09am May 11th 2011 via web in reply to blaine

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@blaine Posterous has a smart implementation. Implied account creation through other services, completed later when you first visit the site

#16 9:20am May 11th 2011 via Twitterrific in reply to blaine

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@blaine Twitpic, Mobypic, yfrog et al designed around piggybacking. It's not about Twitter, but the design to gain users through an API.

#17 9:23am May 11th 2011 via Twitterrific in reply to blaine

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@blaine Which is why those services are well supported by 3rd party clients too. It is genuinely odd to me that no one tried Flickr, though.

#18 9:26am May 11th 2011 via Twitterrific in reply to blaine

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cappuccino pour status: decent. http://twitpic.com/4w65h8

#19 9:32am May 11th 2011 via YoruFukurou

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@mattb sweetie, you're ruining our TwitPic debate! ;)

#20 9:34am May 11th 2011 via web in reply to mattb

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@arielwaldman :) twitpic is for throwaway crap like pictures of my coffee. stuff I don't want to pollute my curated flickr stream with.

#21 9:36am May 11th 2011 via YoruFukurou in reply to arielwaldman

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@mathys Sorry, that wasn't what I meant to imply. My point was services building APIs with lightweight user accounts spurred growth in apps.

#22 9:46am May 11th 2011 via Twitterrific in reply to mathys

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@moleitau @blech eh gawds, I know them well. / someday there will be stories. :)

#23 11:05am May 11th 2011 via web in reply to moleitau

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@BenWard @arielwaldman @blech: Let's please just do this so I can stop being cranky at friends using lame services kthx.

#24 3:39pm May 11th 2011 via Echofon in reply to BenWard

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@mattb @arielwaldman: I hear this a *lot*. Maybe we need a second photostream for your mobile cruft?

#25 3:41pm May 11th 2011 via Echofon in reply to mattb

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@mattb @arielwaldman SIGH. Flickr folks hate it when people only think of us as 'the place for the good photos.'

#26 4:03pm May 11th 2011 via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to mattb

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@mattb that's what machine tags are for! :-)

#27 4:05pm May 11th 2011 via web in reply to mattb

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@waferbaby @mattb @arielwaldman we need people to be able to organize their photostream various ways. End of story.

#28 4:06pm May 11th 2011 via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to waferbaby

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@waferbaby @BenWard @arielwaldman @blech +1

#29 4:06pm May 11th 2011 via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to waferbaby

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@blaine wait, i thought this discussion was about a *more* user-friendly photo upload flow.

#30 4:07pm May 11th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to blaine

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@blaine LOLWUT?

#31 4:11pm May 11th 2011 via YoruFukurou in reply to blaine

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@timoni @mattb @arielwaldman "the place for the good photos" is a pretty good tag line though

#32 4:19pm May 11th 2011 via Seesmic in reply to timoni

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@mattb photo:quality=poor latteart:quality=decent on:twitpic=shouldbeiftheydidntsucksobad

#33 4:22pm May 11th 2011 via web in reply to mattb

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@jwheare machine tags are for machines, silly engineer!

#34 4:35pm May 11th 2011 via web in reply to jwheare

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@arielwaldman That's a bit out of date now.

#35 4:41pm May 11th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to arielwaldman

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@blaine I guess I misunderstood you suggestion…

#36 4:42pm May 11th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to blaine

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