Last updated: January 18th, 2011
With so many third party image sharing service for Twitter, it is hard to decide which one to go for. Since there isn’t any comparison articles yet for Twitgoo vs. Img.ly, two of my remaining choices among the four, I decided to take a real look at them and compare all four Twitpic, Twitgoo, yfrog and img.ly.
Login method
Who would want to hand out their Twitter credentials to a third party website when they can simply link their Twitter account with the image sharing website in just two clicks.
At the time of writing, all (Twitpic, Twitgoo, yfrog, img.ly) are using OAuth to link Twitter accounts to their image sharing service, except for Twitpic, which require you to enter your Twitter username and password.
Image upload
Uploading methods and limitations by the service providers themselves.
| Local file browsing | ||||
| Transload | ||||
| Email upload | ||||
| File format |
*Twitgoo accepts pcx/psd/tiff too, but will convert them to JPG.
*yfrog supports video upload too, but since we are only discussing about image upload, I leave it out of the table
Image viewer
Features on the image viewing page and other relevant information.
| Follow button | ||||
| RT button | ||||
| Rotate image | ||||
| Social media buttons | ||||
| “Other photos” thumbnail | ||||
| Image rating | ||||
| Import Twitter style | ||||
| Special effects | ||||
| Mobile optimized site | ||||
| Embed code | ||||
| Tagging Tweeples (FB style) | ||||
| Watermark on embedded image | ||||
| Direct link | ||||
| RSS feed | ||||
| Distracting banner ad | ||||
| View count |
Banner advertisement on Twitpic:
Banner advertisement on yfrog:
Misc.
| Image URL character | ||||
| Profile URL | =YOURNAME | |||
| Big Daddy |
*This comparison is updated from time to time. If you found any outdated information, please let us know in the comments below.
11 Jul 09
10:41 pm
Good sum up! Have you seen that you can tag other twitter users on the photos at img.ly? we often use that at tweetups or barcamps.
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Vincent replied:
July 11th, 2009
Updated the post with that. Thanks for letting me know. Pretty cool feature, another reason to use img.ly
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12 Jul 09
3:21 am
I’ve just read your message on twitter. I’m not very sure what you mean with the transload function?
Thanks,
Eray // img.ly
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Vincent replied:
July 12th, 2009
Meaning uploading from a URL. Uploading an image that is already on the internet directly to img.ly, without the need of downloading it to our local disk first then upload to img.ly.
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Eray Basar replied:
July 13th, 2009
Ah ok, I think we can do that…but I think at the end it’s more a legal issue
Interesting would be a firefox plugin that can grab images of any site…
Eray
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29 Jul 09
4:18 pm
thanks for this! i think ill be using img.ly
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13 Jan 10
12:15 am
Is it possible to hide the number of views counter on twitgoo?
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15 Feb 10
9:21 pm
Great article! Lot’s of usefull bits of info.. but you did leave out a few! Do you know mobypicture? And tweetphoto? Would love to see the article updated with them…
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17 Feb 10
4:18 am
Twitgoo has RSS/Atom feeds on all pages, and a full API of read and write.
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10 Mar 10
10:39 am
After using TwitPic (as well as having an awful experience with the abominable TweetPhoto), I discovered TwitGoo and have used it ever since! Excellent!
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20 Jul 10
12:32 am
Twitgoo has RSS.
try it!
feed://twitgoo.com/u/tnk_msy/?format=rss
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Vincent replied:
January 18th, 2011
@tnk_msy, is there any button that point to such link in the photo page? Where did you find the link?
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13 Sep 10
6:44 am
I love love love twitgoo I just wish my default image host on TweetDeck was twitgoo or that accessing twitgoo thru my mobile was simpler.
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17 Mar 11
2:38 am
Thanks for the comparison. There does appear, however, to be one metric you have overlooked, and that is whether or not each of these services does preserve any embedded photometadata that exists in the image (such as Exif, IPTC and XMP).
For those who wish to retain control of their intellectual property, this is critical, and many social media and photo sharing services overlook this vital issue. If they “strip” your contact information from the image, then others will have no idea where a given image may have come from when they download an image to their local machine.
A couple of the services mentioned in this article have been included in the survey being conducted at http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/socialmedia just click on the link for preliminary results to see the spreadsheet of what is or is not retained.
I’ve not heard of IMG.LY before, so will be sure to take a look, and see how it stacks up. Currently I’m using Twitpic as they do preserve my photo metadata.
David
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07 May 11
2:05 am
I will choose twitgoo
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30 May 11
6:46 pm
i think it’s time to update the functionality chart again. for one, i see that twitpic now does “tweeple tagging”, as you put it.
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31 May 11
1:47 pm
Yfrog RSS feeds no longer working
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24 Jul 11
2:03 pm
I’ve got to say, I prefer yfrog. The layout is smooth, and you forget you aren’t actually ON twitter. I wish I could upload directly from my cell though.
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11 Oct 11
3:06 am
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