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Twitter buys microblogging service Posterous

Twitter has bought the microblogging service Posterous and will be running it as an adjunct to its main client – for the time being, at least. "This team has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the web and mobile devices simple – a goal we share," said Twitter in a statement. "Posterous engineers, product …

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when there is one twitter user

not entirely up there own arse then I will accept this is news but so far as I can see twitter is just apple with worse fanbois

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Mushroom

Re: when there is one twitter user

My wife uses Twitter in conjunction with promotion for her writing. Could you please tell me of whom she is a fanboi?

back up!

Backup your Posterous Spaces NOW - if you have a Mac!

http://pfapps.com/apps/PosterousBackup.html

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Annoyed...

... moved from Wordpress to Posterous last year.

Looks like I'll have to move on again at some point.

Not that I blog much to be honest.

Re: Annoyed...

Out of interest why did you move from Wordpress?

Pint

Not the original poster...

...but I moved to Posterous from WordPress because I was tired of constantly managing updates and comments when I only posted maybe one blog entry a month.

I've never been a fan of Wordpress.com, so I guess I'll be checking out Blogger or Tumblr.

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Coat

Obviously...

...Twitter has always been preposterous, and since this acquisition, it will also be post-Posterous.

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