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Show HN: An app to tweet text as an image

by simondlr on 3/13/14, 8:31 PM with 6 comments

Hi HN. PG recently tweeted and said there should be an app to tweet text as an image. I made a quick version of this a while back. However, unfortunately pics posted from the API don't automatically display inline. There are some tweaks on this version to be done (some stuff are hardcoded). Go crazy if you want to.

http://www.tweetimg.com/

  • by jyu on 3/15/14, 5:11 AM

    Really wacky idea - Encrypt the message with another image. Why would anyone want this? To get a secret message without leaking as much metadata as email. Instead of sending a 1 on 1 message to a specific email address, you're publishing it to many potential recipients. I have no clue how useful it would be, but seems like a fun excuse to use wand / imagemagick.

    Look at the "Encrypting Image Data" section: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/transform/

  • by meerita on 3/13/14, 9:51 PM

    I did http://www.notegraphy.com while ago. You can write, style and the share on Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr and more from the web, iOS devices or Android.

    Feedback is welcome.

  • by futurist on 3/13/14, 9:37 PM

    Clever name, but are these images guaranteed to be SFW?

  • by jonalmeida on 3/13/14, 11:14 PM

    Neat, but maybe another font or less image compression (or lack of anti-aliasing?). The images look blurry to me.

  • by johnpt on 3/13/14, 10:13 PM