How To Change yfrog To TwitPic In The iPhone Twitter App Settings

By Garrett Blanton posted on Thursday, September 9, 2010 - (How To's)

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Just recently I upgraded to an iPhone 4, which also meant I had to upgrade all my iPhone applications. Being an avid Twitter user, I decided to test my new phone by uploading a picture to TwitPic using the iPhone Twitter application. When I went to view my photo, it was linking to a page on the yfrog website! Since I already had a TwitPic account I began to winder how can I stop this from happening? Yfrog pretty much took over my phone without my permission! After poking around a bit, I was able to find a fix.

1. Open your Twitter iPhone application.
2. Click the settings box. (The box with 3 dots located in the bottom right corner.)

3. Scroll to the very bottom below all of your lists, then click on “Accounts & Settings”.

4. You should now be on the Accounts page. Now click “Settings” located in the bottom left corner.

5. Click “Services”.

6. Select “Image Service”.

7. This is where you can select the image service you prefer. JVF Consulting prefers to use TwitPic.

8. Once you have selected the service you wish to use click “Services” to save your selection.

There you have it, you can now upload your images directly to the image service you prefer!

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Twitter, yfrog, iPhone App, TwitPic

Comments (9)

By Jessie posted on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 @ 1:36 AM

Thanks - I had the exact same takeover experience, and couldn't find the settings :)

By MotionGroove posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 @ 5:00 PM

Thanks, was trying to figure it out, then Googled it any your site came up, awesome!!

By Elle posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 @ 5:42 PM

Thank you! I love twitpic & didn't appreciate that yfrog was being used automatically.

By Nunu-San posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 @ 12:09 PM

Hi, I would like to know if I could transfer my yfrog pictures to my twitpic .. If there's a way, please tell me how?

Thank you.
Please reply ASAP!!

By Ahren posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 @ 8:15 AM

Thanks, I felt so stupid not being able to figure this out!

By Rap Music posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 @ 8:00 PM

Thanks so much for the step by step guide on how to do that! Can't beleive how hidden that setting is, and for the default to be yfrog they must be in cahoots with each other.

By shehzad posted on Sunday, August 21, 2011 @ 6:15 AM

thanks, that was really helpful.

By meghna posted on Friday, September 9, 2011 @ 2:03 PM

is there any way of shifting the pictures from yfrog to twitpic without using the iphone application? can it be done through the computer internet??

By Remi Martin posted on Friday, February 3, 2012 @ 10:39 AM

Very good detailed information from Garrett Blanton, but considering that Twitter now has a photo sharing service available to all users as of August 09, 2011, would it be wise sticking with the original Twitter app and avoid all the hassle of changing the configurations in TwitPic/Yfrog?