Flickr and Twitter, sittin' in a tree...

...k-i-s-s-i-n-g! Well, at least according to this article over at TechCrunch. Flickr now allows users to link their account with their Twitter accounts through the new Flickr2Twitter feature.

How it works: Once you authorize your Flickr account, you're given a "shiny new" Flickr2Twitter email address. When you post photos via this address, a tweet is simultaneously made with a link back to the photo on Flickr. The subject line of your email is used as the tweet content.

Its insanely easy to use, and in fact about 10 seconds after I sent in my photo, there was my tweet:

And clicking through takes me right to my picture:

Pretty, easy, huh? That was a picture I took of Beadnicks in Wicker Park a while ago. No wonder iPhones are about to overtake the Canon Rebel XTi as the most used camera on Flickr.

This new feature is excellent news for those small business owners out there that promote their businesses through photography - it takes one step out of the process of uploading photos of products and telling the world about them. It's even better since uploading can be done anywhere you can send an email.

We hope this feature really catches on. After all, a picture's worth a thousand words, but you can only fit 140 characters in a tweet!