# Yfrog

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Defunct online image hosting service

yfrog Type of site Image sharing Available in English Dissolved 2015 Registration Required Launched February 2009; 17 years ago (2009-02)[1] Current status Defunct

**yfrog** is a defunct [image hosting](/source/Image_hosting) service formerly run by [ImageShack](/source/ImageShack). It commenced operations in February 2009 and shut down in 2015. The service was designed primarily to allow users to share their photographs and videos as links on the [Twitter](/source/Twitter) [microblogging](/source/Microblogging) platform.

## History and features

Yfrog was launched in February 2009.[1] The name yfrog was based on "yellow frog", which is the [logo](/source/Logo) of [ImageShack](/source/ImageShack). The original yfrog logo featured a yellow frog, but in May 2011 was changed to a circle of six [speech balloons](/source/Speech_balloon) in different colors.[2]

Images and videos were uploaded to yfrog via the website interface, or by [email](/source/Email). The [URLs](/source/Uniform_Resource_Locator) of yfrog links were shorter than on ImageShack (e.g. *http://yfrog.com/1upend*), in order to fit within the 140 characters limit of a tweet. The yfrog website was optimized for mobile viewing, and aimed to capture a market similar to [TwitPic](/source/TwitPic)'s.[3][4] As of October 2010, 25 applications supported the yfrog upload [API](/source/API), including the official [Twitter for iPhone](/source/Twitter_for_iPhone) app, [TweetDeck](/source/TweetDeck), [Seesmic](/source/Seesmic), [Twitterrific](/source/Twitterrific), and Twittelator.[5]

Yfrog had approximately 29% of the [Twitter](/source/Twitter) photo sharing market in 2011.[4]

In summer 2011, Twitter began hosting its own images natively through its web and mobile interfaces, which caused usage to go down.[6] Yfrog pivoted to run its own social media service, Yfrog Social, in 2012.[7] Yfrog Social shut down in 2015, while Yfrog for Twitter also redirected to ImageShack and replaced former images with unrelated ads.[8]

## See also

- [Flickr](/source/Flickr)

- [Photobucket](/source/Photobucket)

- [TinyPic](/source/TinyPic)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-launch_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-launch_1-1) Wauters, Robin (February 18, 2009). ["ImageShack Launches Mediocre TwitPic Alternative"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/19/AR2009021900369.html). *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20121112135742/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/19/AR2009021900369.html) from the original on November 12, 2012. Retrieved June 8, 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Frog Loses Battle to Speech Bubbles](https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/frog_loses_battle_to_speech_bubbles.php) Brand New, May 17, 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Example of yfrog mobile viewing"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110122023148/http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/9045/83926833cm3.jpg). Archived from [the original](http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/9045/83926833cm3.jpg) on January 22, 2011. Retrieved 2012-09-06.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-market_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-market_4-1) ["A Snapshot Of Photo-Sharing Market Share On Twitter"](https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/02/a-snapshot-of-photo-sharing-market-share-on-twitter). [TechCrunch](/source/TechCrunch). June 2, 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-partners_5-0)** http://yfrog.com/partners.php - yfrog Partners

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Twitter Photo Uploading Now Available For 100% Of Users"](https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/twitter-photo-uploading-now-available-for-100-of-users/). *TechCrunch*. Retrieved 2020-12-16.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["ImageShack Launches Yfrog Social, An Ambitious New Full-Service Social Network"](https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/02/imageshack-launches-yfrog-social/). *TechCrunch*. Retrieved 2023-09-26.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Ban ImageShack images because they are reusing old URLs for advertising"](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263771/ban-imageshack-images-because-they-are-reusing-old-urls-for-advertising). *Meta Stack Exchange*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20201108110806/https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263771/ban-imageshack-images-because-they-are-reusing-old-urls-for-advertising) from the original on 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2020-12-16.

## External links

- [Yfrog Says It Wasn’t Compromised in Wake of Weiner Photo](http://mashable.com/2011/06/03/yfrog-email-upload/) [Mashable](/source/Mashable), June 3, 2011.

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