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Flickr2Twitter UI confusion

Flickr2Twitter UI confusion by George Chen.
Flickr2Twitter. How hard is that right? It's actually pretty hard to set up (and confusing). Both services have decent APIs, but when you ask a common user to connect both, it becomes pretty confusing.

"An application would like to connect to your account" - I assume that's Flickr would like to connect to my Twitter account.

"The application Flickr by Flickr" would like the ability to access and update your data on Twitter." - I guess that confirms that...

Username / Email and Password field really got me though. Do you want my Flickr ID or do you want my Twitter ID?

I have no clue.

I took a guess and entered my Twitter ID and password. It worked.

Better solution:

Since I am signed in to Twitter already, can the service just display my user name / ID and ask me to enter the password to confirm?

Having the "Username or Email" field really confuse the hell out of me. I thought I need to enter some Flickr information here.

Not a criticism. Just some observation because I care. :) 

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J.R. Avaritt  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flickr2Twitter, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

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