This is very cool for everyone that uses Flickr.  After watching other photo hosts create tools for Twitter users to post pictures, Flickr has finally stepped up and pushed out its own solution

By divining the popular photo service with access to your Twitter stream, you can now post individual shots there right from Flickr, including a Flic.kr shortened URL.

Instead of adding a new button to do this, Flickr users simply set up Twitter as if they were adding another blog to post photos to. Clicking the “blog this” button takes you to a page where you can type in the remaining 116 characters, and see the shortened Flickr URL at the end of the Tweet.

You also get a special variation of your Flickr posting e-mail address that directs e-mailed shots directly to your Twitter stream at the same time they’re hosted on Flickr.

Only issue so far is you need to sign up for a Flickr account,  competing services, like YFrog, and TwitPic, don’t require users to create accounts. Ussually you simply create them automatically based on Twitter info.

If Flickr can work with Twitter users and make signing in with your Twitter info, that woulds be nice.

John Paul