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Posterous Turns Post.ly Into A New Media Sharing Service For Twitter
- Tawheed 17y agoAfter 740k in funding, they end up doing yet another Twitter app? Lame.
- teye 17y agoThey end up adding a feature that enhances their product's value and takes advantage of a fantastic distribution channel? Natural, not lame.
- diN0bot 17y agoit does sound like a natural and good step forward for them. i admit it also feels lame to me, but then i'm not extra passionate about blogging or tweeting (though i do both using wordpress and the twitter website).
- Tawheed 17y agoIts a feature that in no way connects with their core product. Sure, if they added a TWEET THIS blog post link, and did a direct integration to Twitter for helping spread the word on a blog entry, I would understand. However, this is a completely separate branch.
- teye 17y agoIncorrect. Have you tried it? Hitting "Post to Twitter" puts the content in a Posterous and tweets a link to it. How does that not connect with their core product?
- Tawheed 17y ago1. FD: I didn't go through the whole flow. 2. I post at Post.ly (See #3 -- because I'm wondering under which context I would even post in Post.ly), and it creates a Posterous blog (wait, you're setting up a blog for me? you didn't mention that... what if I already have a blog?) -- and then links the Tweet to it. This seems even more like a bastard child to me now than I originally thought, not to mention a completely confusing user experience. 3. What exactly is the audience here. Most tweets are about referring to existing content (at least the tweets with links) -- under which context are you saying -- "here world, here's a random webpage I just created out of the blue with some files" -- wheres the story+context here? I maintain my stance, this seems like a desperate attempt to jump on the Twitter bandwagon instead of really thinking about how to make your core product more valuable.
- makeee 17y agoIt does connect with their core product. When you attach media it creates a posterous blog for you which hosts the content.
- a4agarwal 17y agopost.ly took us about a week to build, and really shows the power of our API. It's a great way to teach people about Posterous, and trounce all the other Twitter media services out there.
- pclark 17y agoWhy did they do this?
- rantfoil 17y agoteye's comment explains it quite well.
- felideon 17y agoI wish Posterous would have mixpanel integration like they do with Google Analytics. :)
- nirmal 17y agoI have a posterous blog that uses a custom domain. One thing that I would like is for the automatic tweeting of my posts to use my domain for the short url. So something like http://hacketal.com/i-want-a-coffee-mug-like-this-one http://hacketal.com/i-want-a-coffee-mug-like-this-one should be posted as http://hacketal.com/random http://hacketal.com/random instead of http://post.ly/random http://post.ly/random
- jazzychad 17y agoIn Chrome under Linux, clicking "Click here to edit your tweet" does not clear the text box or reset the font to black. Also clicking any of the buttons has no effect. Seems to work under Firefox, though...
- Raphael 17y agoGood. It always seemed odd that you had to post from email. This makes Posterous more like other blogging systems, with a web interface.