Flickr Jumps Up to Fill the Vacant Spot that Instagram Left on Twitter

By: Jeff Stewart  |   December 16th, 2012   |   Mobile Apps, News, Social Media

When Instagram restricted its pictures from appearing on the famous micro-blogging website Twitter, many thought that the latter social networking website had no other immediate option but to launch its own photo filters, which ended up being exactly in line with the plan.

 

However, things did not go exactly the way many people were hoping because just as Instagram left the party, several other services jumped up and showed keen interest to fill the coveted vacant spot.

 

One such social service was Yahoo!’s very own Flickr that has just launched its latest app for Apple’s iPhone. Flickr showed its interest towards Twitter Cards by introducing its latest filtered captures to tweets from the morning of December 12.

 

This news was first mentioned by the Vice President of Flickr, Brett Wayn, as he hinted about this latest integration late last week through a blog post. Later the Head of Product at Flickr, Markus Spiering confirmed this news that their update related to Twitter Cards went live from the morning of December 12.

 

As a result of this move, when a user now shares his or her picture from this image hosting site to Twitter whether through the latest iPhone app or somewhere else, their photo will appears right within the tweet. So their followers/friends would not have leave Twitter to see a picture.

 

Talking about this latest feature Spiering at Flickr said, “When you think about what a user really wants, if you use the Flickr app, you chose Flickr as your photo service, and you upload your photos to Flickr. But also you make the explicit choice to share somewhere else. As a user, your expectation probably is … that you want to have your photos look as best as possible on the destination that you share them to.”

 

Spiering also said that Flickr had employed the integration to tweets quite earlier, but later Yahoo! also reworked its photo property functionality so its photos can also appear inside mobile apps of Twitter.

 

Source: VentureBeat