Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter! The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn’t be happier about bringing our team’s expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Plus, the people at Twitter are genuinely nice folks who share our vision for making sharing simpler. Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption. We’ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service. For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service, we’ll share clear instructions for doing so in the coming weeks. You can find more information answers to other questions you may have here. Finally, we’d like to offer thanks to all of our users, especially those who have been with Posterous since day one. The last four years have been an amazing journey. Your encouragement, praise and criticism have made us better. Thanks for that. We look forward to building great things for you over at Twitter.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Twitter Buys Posterous!
This in late this afternoon. I guess this is a good thing, not sure. I hope they don't tank Posterous. I bet this will take the wind out of Tumblr's sails.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
The Official Posterous Posterous - This is where we post about new features on posterous. You can get a blog just like this by emailing post@posterous.com.
At Posterous, we're in the business of making posting dead simple. But what good is posting if you can't share it? Our autopost tools already make it super easy to let your friends on Facebook and Twitter keep updated about your posts. But what about the rest of your friends and family? You know, your grandmother in Omaha or your uncle in Schenectady ..
That's why we created our new subscribe via email feature -- now anybody with an email (last time we checked, that was 2 billion people) can subscribe to receive regular updates from your Posterous blog. Nice and easy, no signup or account required --- now everybody can join the conversation on your blog.
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Also, we know there are tons of people who would love to know about your blog -- why not invite them to take a gander? We're also launching a tool that helps you import your contacts and send invites to your friends and family to come read your blog. Just visit your site's manage page, and click on the "Subscriptions" tab.Filed under // email New Features
Friday, January 22, 2010
Posterous Turns Post.ly Into A New Media Sharing Service For Twitter
Dead-simple blogging and content distribution service Posterous
has long used the URL post.ly as a custom branded Web address for blog posts hosted on its platform. Today, the startup is announcing that it has turned Post.ly
into a destination site of its own, more specifically making it the latest media sharing service for Twitter
.
Staying true to its well-earned reputation of keeping its services as simple as they are functional, Posterous has turned Post.ly into something I can see myself using a lot going forward.
If you’re a Posterous user and logged on, Post.ly will recognize you as such, or you can simply sign in with your username and password. You can then use the tool to send out a tweet to your Twitter account (which you can link up using the OAuth protocol) and add multiple media files like photos, videos, music, documents and more to your message.
If 140 characters doesn’t quite cut it for you, there’s an option to include an unlimited amount of extra text. Evidently, whatever you choose to publish will end up on on your Posterous blog and be distributed to your Twitter stream using Posterous’ auto-post technology.
If you’re not a Posterous user yet, using Post.ly will work in the same fashion as sending an e-mail to post@posterous.com for the first time: it will automatically set up a custom blog for you with your Twitter username, and you can later dive into the settings to configure the title, theme, etc. Couldn’t be easier.
Posterous is introducing this new feature / service because it hopes Post.ly will introduce more people to their core service and entice them to discover more about what it’s capable of. As a Posterous user
myself, I think it is also terribly useful for existing users, mainly because for whatever reason you currently can’t upload files to Posterous when you’re publishing a new blog post from the Web.
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