None at the moment. Here’s what I really, really want:
- Reliability
- Option to also post to Facebook Fan Page or profile
- Syndicates to Flickr
- Tags and search features to search by tags
- Post by email, SMS or Web
- Site is mobile friendly so everyone can easily view pics from their phone
- Ratings
- Multi platform sharing features
- Also hosts video and syndicates to YouTube
Posterous covers most of the items in my wishlist but it’s a broader host for all types of content, not a clean photo gallery. At its core it’s another simpler type of blog. For Twitter I prefer more focused apps like Twitpic. Ow.ly and TweetPhoto. I switched to the latter months ago and am switching back with high hopes and am dissapointed to report that TweetPhoto has been unreliable one too many times so I’m ready to switch. It has a habit of not posting to Twitter, then days later broadcasting all the photos it didn’t tweet at one time. “The sunset over the beach today” sounds a little ridiculous at 7am 5 days later… It also has struggled with half working features like tagging with no ability to search by the tags. TweetPhoto has tons of potential hopefully they’ll sort it out. Until then I’ll save myself the headache with Posterous or Twitpic. Ow.ly is in my consideration set, which is your best option if you’re a Hootsuite user, it has full featured tagging and ratings plus great sharing functions. If they expand their reporting features on files and photos, and add email submission I’ll be more apt to use it. I use Hootsuite but my tool of choice is still TweetDeck because I like it’s interface just a little bit better for personal use – particularly on managing lists. Of the three Twitpic is the least feature rich, they offer tagging, no ratings, no integration to other social networks. If I had time this morning I’d create a comparison chart – if you have one please share.
A final note on Twitter photos. I’ve thought a lot about the best tool for photo contests and my recommendation is to let your followers use what ever they choose to submit photos on Twitter. The more requirements you put into submission that take the user out of their normal behavior the less participation you will get. Ask them to use a hashtag in their post and it will easy to pull up entries through a search. This will work fine for random winners or best photo chosen by you. If you want to award best photo chosen by users you’ll have to look further into running it on one platform that offers tags and ratings, and a working search function to pull tagged photos.
If you have other suggestions please share them in comments your feedback is appreciated.
