Food Photos On Twitter – Now There’s An App For That
You may have noticed a trend on Twitter since it started of people sharing their food photos. People do it all the time and in Ireland they even started tagging them #foodporn so as users could find them easily. I used to post my food photos on Twitter as well and when people started to enjoy them and comment on them I decided to give them a more permanent Tumblr home so as I could look back over them in the future. See the thing is people love photos on social media (they are easy to view, visual and only a click away) and most people enjoy their food so the combination proved to be a winner. I was always thinking that there could be a better use for all these photos because although great content and a great insight in to different restaurants and hotels at the time the photos are never organized or add value in to the future. Well guess what… now there is an app for that….
Foodspotting App
I have always wondered why services like Foursquare didn’t allow you to take photos of food, it would have been a feature that would have actually got me to use the service as I would have seen that as real value. Thankfully the guys behind Foodspotting have brought 2 areas together that make sense…Food and location and are tapping in to Foursquare‘s new API to offer an app that could go a long way. Now all those photos that people want to show off has been turned in to a game based around food discovery which is inherently useful for finding the best looking food in town. The pictures on Twitter and the likes of my blog are great but they have no real purpose but if people start to convert to using this app I could easily see a day where I arrive in a new city and stroll around town looking for food based on the photos of others and my current location.
Will It Work?
It has all the key elements to make it work. People are already carrying out the functionality of the app on Twitter in an informal way. The makers of the app have tried to include some game play to try and copy the success Foursquare have had and the fact that it involves food, something that we eat 3 times a day makes it interesting. It has barely even launched but if the makers of this app get enough users to start using it sharing their food photos they could be on to a winner. Could I see a day where I don’t have a guide book and just walk around town with my phone browsing food photos in the near future? Yes 100%. The revenue possibilities are endless because if they can get enough users on board as you could only imagine that restaurants would be pretty keen to partner up and have their photos appear at the top of the list.
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