DarqByte

So while Laura’s got her 365-Day Project going on, I figured I should do the same. You know, take a picture once a day and post it online. Little did I know that my wonderful wife would refuse to alternate which days each of us got the DSLR camera we have. It’s more her camera than mine, but nonetheless… I got locked out.

I briefly toyed with the idea of a 365-Day iPhone Project, but then decided I didn’t want to have to constantly connect my iPhone to my home laptop to do it.

Well, the other day I got TwitterFon on my iPhone. It’s a nice little Twitter client that has built-in support for replies, direct messages, searching, etc. And when I was writing a Tweet on it, I noticed an icon for a photo… Lo-and-behold, my savior!

It integrates with TwitPic, a picture hosting service for the purposes of putting short URLs to pictures into your Tweets. The thought occurred to me: I could use TwitterFon to get my iPhone photos into my Tweets! Granted, it’s not posting the photos on my blog or Facebook, but in my Tweets!

All I needed was a way to tag my Tweets that are in this project as such, and the nice convention of #<keyword> helped. Basically, I put #iphonephoto in all of my iPhone Photo A Day Tweets to tag them, which makes them searchable in Twitter.

I’ve already posted two, which you can see here. If you’re on Twitter, start following me, I’m rfludwick. All you need to do is keep up with #iphonephoto and you’re good. And I highly suggest participating if you’re on Twitter and have an iPhone. It can be random posts, anything really!