Flickr has been my favorite photo application for as long as I can remember. Tagging, sharing, commenting, distributing, it makes me want to carry my camera with me everywhere I go. I love participating in social media, and I love taking pictures.

When Twitter took the web by storm, it was just natural that people would want to share photos there, and Twitpic was the answer. As much as I like sharing photos with friends, I couldn’t bring myself to use their service because Twitpic requires your Twitter credentials to play. So, each time I had a picture to share I’d post it to Flickr, shorten the URL and post it to Twitter. That’s a lot of steps and I’ll bet you can guess the outcome, I didn’t share many pictures via Twitter.

But now that’s all changed! Just yesterday Flickr launched a new service called Flickr2Twitter. It does exactly what it says, email a photo to a specific email address within your Flickr account, and it updates your Twitter account with a URL to the pic and your message. And, it handles this via Twitter’s API, so you get to keep your Twitter password to yourself.

Because you’re sending the pic via email, you can do all of this via your phone. Also, if you find a photo that’s already posted to Flickr (yours or a publicly available one), you can share the photo from directly within Flickr. That’s pretty handy.

Flickr, thanks for thinking of us. Stay awesome.