Post to Twitter
Well, it took a little while, but last night we launched the ability to share your ParentShack photos on Twitter. Just like our “Share on Facebook” and “Share on MySpace” features, you must be logged into your ParentShack account and visiting your site to see the three “Share on” options.
When you are logged in and viewing your site, click on the little Twitter “[ t ]” icon. A page will pop up displaying the image that you will share as well as a text box where you can enter your 110-character maximum message.
Enter your tweet text:
When you click the “Tweet this photo” button, a Twitter page will appear asking you to give ParentShack permission to post your message to your Twitter account. Clicking “Allow” on this page will post your message with a shortened link back to a special page on your ParentShack site.
Enter your Twitter username and password:
(Technical detail: we use a process called OAuth to connect to your Twitter account. This is a fancy way of saying that you never have to reveal to us your Twitter username and password. Twitter handles all the login stuff, keeping your credentials extra safe and sound.)
Your tweet will look like this:
And the special ParentShack page looks like this:
As of now, visitors from Twitter can only see the single image (and image comments) that you selected for sharing, they have no access to the rest of your ParentShack website.
In the future, we may add the option to share your entire site or an entire album. Let us know in the comments or by contacting us if you have a preference.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
This is a great feature. I love sharing some (not all) of my photos with my Twitter followers.
I don’t think I’d ever want to share my entire site, but I could see having an entire album that I wouldn’t mind opening up.
Sharing just a single photo, while keeping the rest of my site private, has worked well for me. Thanks! I can’t believe all I get with my free website
July 16th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I agree with Jill. Most of my ParentShack site I would like to keep to just family and my closest friends. That is the reason I have these photos and videos on ParentShack (vs. Facebook) in the first place.
I like that only the single shared image is available to my Twitter friends. If you allow full-site or full-album sharing, be sure to create the ability to still only share the one image.