As we were preparing for the first ever Taste and Tweet event at El Gaucho Bellevue, we realized that it would be nice to share photos from the event. We'd seen a number of ways to embed photos in tweets, but we'd never been serious in our observations.
We selected some of the most popular to test drive. They included: pic.im, mypic.me, twitpic.com, yfrog.com. We looked home pages of the following but did not give them a test drive: pixelpipe.com, tweetphoto.com, twitsnaps.com, snaptweet.com (We would welcome your comments on any of these untested services.)
To cut to the results quickly: we chose to use pic.im for our photos. And we are very pleased that we did. Our testing notes - good image size, allows comments, includes STATS. Supports iPhone to Twitter (pic.im/website/iphone )
mypic.me -- did not fly with us, because it did not support photo names with spaces, no stats, and no commenting
twitpic -- offered direct post to Twitter which is good. Also accepted commenting. Didn't care for the advertising that came with the service
yfrog.com -- allowed comments, allowed sharing, and gave a fairly good sized photo display; however the resolution was not very good in full screen display. But at least they allowed full screen display.
Just a note as CEO of Yodio, we store photos in the size submitted. So 8 MB photos blow your socks off when shown in our full screen mode. We're disappointed to see services like yfrog.com who take a compressed version of a photo and then push it to a blurry full screen display. We'd like to see photo quality benefitting from the full screen.
You can see the pic.im links in the posting history for @ElGauchoBell or @TasteandTweet.
We selected some of the most popular to test drive. They included: pic.im, mypic.me, twitpic.com, yfrog.com. We looked home pages of the following but did not give them a test drive: pixelpipe.com, tweetphoto.com, twitsnaps.com, snaptweet.com (We would welcome your comments on any of these untested services.)
To cut to the results quickly: we chose to use pic.im for our photos. And we are very pleased that we did. Our testing notes - good image size, allows comments, includes STATS. Supports iPhone to Twitter (pic.im/website/iphone )
mypic.me -- did not fly with us, because it did not support photo names with spaces, no stats, and no commenting
twitpic -- offered direct post to Twitter which is good. Also accepted commenting. Didn't care for the advertising that came with the service
yfrog.com -- allowed comments, allowed sharing, and gave a fairly good sized photo display; however the resolution was not very good in full screen display. But at least they allowed full screen display.
Just a note as CEO of Yodio, we store photos in the size submitted. So 8 MB photos blow your socks off when shown in our full screen mode. We're disappointed to see services like yfrog.com who take a compressed version of a photo and then push it to a blurry full screen display. We'd like to see photo quality benefitting from the full screen.
You can see the pic.im links in the posting history for @ElGauchoBell or @TasteandTweet.
The pic.im metrics for viewing were real time and very good. Pic.im proved very user-friendly at the Taste and Tweet even when the users were under pressure, and we appreciated the tracking results as the photos were RT'd (re-tweeted). It gets thumbs up from us.
Added note: The pic.im is associated with the URL shortener tr.im which we tried and really liked. tr.im offers a nice option for customizing your shortened URL.
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