Posterous acquired by Twitter

http://blog.posterous.com/big-news

by michaelfairley • 14 years ago

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Seems strange for a company this "developed" to go as part of a talent acquisition, does this imply that the company doesn't see a way to grow beyond what it is now and believes that what it is now isn't good enough to warrant continuing on with the option to join Twitter? Although I guess 4 years isn't that old in the grand scheme of things.

brackin2• 14 years ago

I think they were trying to take on Tumblr in the earlier days but were never able to. They then tried to create a Path like product which was for families to use but kept all of the old features so it got quite confusing from a users perspective.

wyclif• 14 years ago

I bet Garry Tan could write a book about all this. A book that every startup should probably read.

ig13• 14 years ago

They never really figured out monetization and they didn't manage to get the traction of tumblr, plus with the loss of a founder it was a hard position for them to be in.

I doubt the investors made a return.

AznHisoka• 14 years ago

how much do you guess they were acquired for?

alaskamiller2• 14 years ago

Tumblr "won" the space.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tumblr_reels_in_big_tra...

WordPress.com figured out how to monetize with VIP hosting/support.

Not to cheapen the work done but sometimes it's just how the cookies crumble.

mortenjorck• 14 years ago

In my mind, Spaces was a pivot to a completely different market. My primary Tumblr is a photo blog, but my Posterous is a place where I share things privately with friends. Posterous has become a sort of Facebook alternative for me, and I really don't look forward to seeing it shut down.

adrianwaj• 14 years ago

I wonder if the name posterous was a poor choice? Sendblog or zenblog might've been better.

soulclap• 14 years ago

Tumblr is definitely very successful but Posterous had a lot more 'serious' content. From my perspective, Tumblr is mainly for 'cool kids' showing off and a lot of it is only 'reblogging'. Posterous had actual 'blogs' and 'articles'. Sure that reputation/standing has some kind of value too?

johnnyn• 14 years ago

Congrats Posterous! IMO, this is one of the best teams around and Twitter will be lucky to have them on board.

mikebo• 14 years ago

From their acquisition FAQ: "We’ll give you ample notice before any changes to the service and we’ll share clear instructions about how to move your content to other services. In the meantime, your Spaces will remain up and running without disruption."

Sounds like posterous is not long for this world. This is a bummer, I really like posterous.

corin_• 14 years ago

The line immediately before that in the blog is "Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption."

Sounds more like they're answering a potentially frequently answered question, not hinting that they'll be shutting the service.

benatkin• 14 years ago

Reading between the lines in the article and the FAQ it seems this indeed will happen:

http://posterous.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/56001-...

> What happens to my Space? Will Posterous eventually shut down?

> You can use your Space(s) exactly as you have in the past. We’ll give you ample notice before any changes or disruptions to the service and we’ll provide specific instructions for exporting your content to another service.

Notice they don't actually answer the question.

http://blog.twitter.com/2012/03/welcoming-posterous-team-to-...

> Posterous engineers, product managers and others will join our teams working on several key initiatives that will make Twitter even better.

Sounds like they'll be working on Twitter, not Posterous. It doesn't say anything about people at Twitter working at Posterous, so it doesn't sound like a merge.

jstanderfer• 14 years ago

The last question of the FAQ is this:

>Can I export my Space’s to Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger, or >another service?

>Over the coming weeks we’ll provide you with specific >instructions for exporting your content to other services.

I don't think there is any doubt they'll be shutting down Spaces soon.

DanielRibeiro• 14 years ago

I wonder what will happen to YC's posterous[1]. Pg usually twits all that info, but it was nice to have a less ephemeral source of info.

[1] http://ycombinator.posterous.com/

kmfrk2• 14 years ago

I guess it's a good thing to have someone in this situation on the inside who can voice his concern to the (former) owners about this.

webwanderings• 14 years ago

This simply means that Twitter will fill its own void of 140 characters and above space. I think it's a win-win for everyone. Without more-than-140-characters, the Twitter remains simply the link sharing platform. With a blogging service attached to its hip, they (Twitter) can compete with FB and Google Plus.

edbloom• 14 years ago

this. At first glance I assumed "talent acquisition" but I was only thinking today (uncanny timing) that twitter really needs more content distribution channels to gain more mainstream usage. This together with the Summify acquisition point to the possibility that twitter is going to change it's content distribution model from pure streams of content to more curated, blog style channels. I think there's huge potential in this. Let's see what happens.

iag• 14 years ago

This is a bit odd to me as an acquisition. It's unlikely to be a talent acquisition given the userbase/brand of posterous, but the two product doesn't seem to mesh at all IMO. Does anyone have a theory as to what's the synergy behind these two companies that could justify an acquisition?

HardyLeung• 14 years ago

Perhaps Twitter wants to own all things micro-blogging (that's the term Twitter's Chinese competitor uses), whatever that means.

sbierwagen3• 14 years ago

Posterous isn't really micro-blogging. It's regular blogging. Macro-blogging.

rhizome• 14 years ago

To be sure, Twitter's non-tweet features need a lot of improvement.

petegrif• 14 years ago

good question - I don't get it either.

bdz• 14 years ago

what about video sharing? as the twitter for iphone app always had the option to upload to posterous. twitter successfully launched the photo uploading, now is the time for videos

chrisacky• 14 years ago

The FAQ was reallly difficult to gauge the overall direction that Posterous is headed.

I use Posterous for my personal and startup blogs.

Reading the Posterous FAQ, they barely use any "exciting" colloquialisms. Everything is cast in a shadow of uncertainty. In fact, I would probably go far as saying this is one of the worst acquisition FAQ's I've read. I'm very pleased for the Posterous team, but you haven't truely given any insight as to where you plan to be in 6 months from now.

Some startups are just "aqhirisations", and from a cynical reading this sounds all too familiar.

I could be wrong, and perhaps the author of that article just never read Shakespeare, because right now I can see the clouds overhead.

sbierwagen3• 14 years ago

Get out now. If this follows the pattern of, say, every talent acquisition ever, they'll shut down the site and delete all user data in 3-6 months.

adgar• 14 years ago

> The FAQ was reallly difficult to gauge the overall direction that Posterous is headed.

Given the effort that goes into carefully negotiating the acquisition process, you can be sure that this lack of clarity is not an accident.

bryanh• 14 years ago

Begin countdown until shutdown...

tatsuke95• 14 years ago

Also begin countdown until potential customers/users/regular people start saying, "I'm not signing up for another service that I can't trust will still exist next year."

Sad to say, but every time I find myself using a tool or site regularly, this crosses my mind...

sachinag• 14 years ago

Congrats to Good/Real Sachin, Garry, and all the rest of the team!

hopeless• 14 years ago

Does anyone else see this as a YC/VC-success but a business-failure? I'd be far more impressed if they grew Posterous into a profitable company. And so this team is moving from one unprofitable company to another. Disappointing :(

nl• 14 years ago

And so this team is moving from one unprofitable company to another

There's a pretty good chance Twitter is already profitable[1][2]. If they aren't then it's pretty clear they can do a facebook and turn on the profits when they choose.

[1] http://mashable.com/2011/09/29/twitter-revenue-to-hit-400-mi...

[2] http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-30/tech/30012755...

callmeed4• 14 years ago

In a small way, every talent acquisition poisons the well for future, bootstrapped startups.

It erodes the confidence of users and potential customers. People put their company blog on Posterous, they add their business to GoWalla, they gave AdGrok a few hours of their time, etcetera, etcetera.

I'm not saying I would turn down the offer. But I fear the long-term effect of all these acqui-hires is my potential customers saying "No thanks. I doubt you geeks will be around in 18 months" when I market to them.

harryh4• 14 years ago

What do you think would happen most of the time if these acquihires didn't happen? The companies would just go out of business and the services would be shut down anyway.

aiscott• 14 years ago

Wait, why do you say that? Is there an assumption that startups don't have a workable business model?

ghshephard• 14 years ago

One alternative would be for these startups to scrimp and struggle for a long time on Ramen Profitability, maintaining their services while they sought to expand, find a business model, open up new veins while continuing the old, perhaps providing a graceful upgrade into the new portfolio.

I'm with the GP poster -while I probably would do the same thing in an acquihire situation, it does start to (somewhat) poison the well over time for newer startups.

While I love Path to bits - I have zero clue what their business model will be, and wonder what will happen to all my carefully journaled "moments" if Path gets acquhired sometime in the future. Somebody needs to come up with a good Diaspora like solution for personal journaling where _i_ control the data, and store it on something that is likely to be persistent (S3 is the only thing that I can think of that has a greater than 90% chance of being around in 10+ years. Dropbox, if they have good public offering, will likely be the second candidate)

I'd pay money for that - $10 for a Dropbox/S3 storage social network akin to what we get with Path today.

jQueryIsAwesome• 14 years ago

Yeah, just like Facebook; I don't know if you have heard of it.

shingen7• 14 years ago

It provides that much greater of an opportunity for startups that stick around.

chc3• 14 years ago

How long are you going to be able to stick around without funding and no customers?

pestaa• 14 years ago

I think you're right, but aren't these acqusitions transparent to most of these customers? Posterous stays the same brand for a huge portion of its userbase.

callmeed4• 14 years ago

I'm assuming (possibly incorrectly) that Posterous shuts down their blog system within a year.

That's the context I'm referring to (acquire -> integrate engineering talent -> shut down original product). When that happens, it's the users who get the short end of the stick (VCs may lose $ or break even, but that's an expectation in their world).

Software–however niche, crappy, or "beta"–gets used for a lot longer than developers realize. Somewhere out there, a secretary is using a Word macro that's older than my teenage daughter and she'll stab you with her letter opener you if you try and take it away. But, in a Web-app/SaaS world, we developers can shut things down with a simple keystroke. That doesn't mean it has no consequences.

Lambent_Cactus• 14 years ago

It also has to have some effect on lowering the costs to launching a new startup by limiting the downside risk, particularly to technical talent. Surely some people have though "Sure, I have a good job now, but if it doesn't work out we'll just get acqui-hired by the big guys in 18 months, so why not?"

geofflewis2• 14 years ago

Out of all the issues bootstrapped startups face, I really don't think "other startups may be acqui-hired and poison our well." should be a concern. The vast majority of startups that fail do so because they poison their own well

dasil003• 14 years ago

Early adopters are always jumping to the next thing anyway. What are the chances you will still want to use a given web service 5 years down the line? All in all I think this concern is more than outweighed by the fact that startups offer tighter and more inspired new products than established players. What are you gonna do, just not use any products?

justincormack• 14 years ago

Early adopters yeah. But consumers used Kodak for 100 years or so before changing. Average people hate data migrations.

freshhawk2• 14 years ago

I don't think it's just a long term effect. I've already experienced this attitude from potential customers:

"So what happens when you guys get aquired and shut this product down"

"We don't plan to, it makes money and we're growing"

"If you keep growing one of the big players will get worried or interested or both and make you an offer you'd have to be stupid not to take"

It makes sense, the aqui-hire doesn't just get you a proven team with known talent, it removes a potential competitor that might disrupt the status quo. There's a reason it's happening so often and it's because it's great business.

But as a trend it's certainly going to make it harder to get customers for startups that aren't based on creating a fad-ish service for consumers but are providing services people consider important.

geofflewis2• 14 years ago

If this is ever a customer objection that actually prevents a deal, the prospect probably just does not want your service that badly and is reaching for an excuse to not sign.

joshuamerrill• 14 years ago

Agreed. I keep referring back to Maciej Ceglowski's fabulous post, Don't Be A Free User: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user

Posterous had a good four year run, but the strong hint from the press release is that they'll be shutting the service down.

mmaunder• 14 years ago

It also has the profoundly sad impact of occupying entrepreneurs and investors who could be inventing job creation machines.

larrys4• 14 years ago

I agree with you but this is really a business issue not a startup issue.

Apple killed newton, clones, xserve and other products. I'm sure you can think of more.

Sun killed cobalt servers.

GM killed Oldsmobile, Pontiac etc.

Survival of the fittest. All the warm fuzzy folksy stuff (that you don't see in traditional business - you know things like a dog at the office or free food) means very little in the end. They will do what they need to do to survive.

callmeed4• 14 years ago

The difference is (a) most hardware is owned on premises and Sun can't simply walk in your server closet and yank it out, and (b) these companies usually provide support for hardware for a few years after the product is shelved. If I'm not mistaken, auto manufacturers are required to have certain parts/service available for a few years after the production of each model.

With web startups, you get (at best) an email with 90 days notice.

phil• 14 years ago

It's endemic to the web. Just look at GeoCities. Or, maybe you entrusted all your medical records to Google Health?

The web is built for innovation, not longevity.

fleitz• 14 years ago

No it doesn't errode confidence, most customers are not part of the startup ecosystem. (unless your target demo is other startups) To be frank, I'm not sure what Posterous being acquired by Twitter has anything to do with most of your points.

First of all, Posterous is not bootstrapped, it's received $10M in VC funding. Second Posterous has few customers compared to users, but well paying ones like Coca-Cola, I'm sure they will be taken care of.

If you have a product worth buying your customers will not question how long you've been around. Some will but there are enough that won't. If you're really worried about it, buy an off the shelf company with updated filings, it's not very difficult to find a company 3 or 4 years old. If you've got the cash you could even buy a publicly listed shell. Even NYSE shells come up now and then but those are very pricey.

But honestly, unless you're selling items in the thousands of dollars per month range no one is going to pull your corporate charter.

As an aside, do you offer Cilantro in bulk / whitelabel or do you have an affiliate program?

tptacek4• 14 years ago

Not really. Most startups simply fail. Only a small fraction of them make a good enough name for themselves that the team has value. And the ones that accept those deals tend overwhelmingly to be companies that would have failed anyways. Startups all start with a confidence liability; this is just a fact of life.

It's even worse if you're selling to enterprises, and was worse long before anyone ever thought of the term "acquihire". You can trounce your competitors on every axis, come in at half the price, charge a flat-rate site license instead of a metered seat license, and buy the purchasing team 52-day aged ribeyes every week for 6 months and still lose if you're the one who looks like you might be out of business 2 years from now.

callmeed4• 14 years ago

It's still another data point that gets in people's heads IMO (it's in mine FWIW).

A good analogy might be the crappy customer service provided by AT&T, Comcast and [insert most utility cos] over the past 20 years. Most consumers now expect poor service and I'd wager that has, to some degree, had an influence on purchasing decisions.

amirmc3• 14 years ago

Very fair points and it is worth reminding people that most startups fail (usually with a whimper that no-one hears). I wish the team well and thank them. I might never have started a blog if not for Posterous.

However, teams and products that do manage to make a name for themselves potentially end up leaving more unhappy people in their wake when they're 'acquihired'. It's not quite 'fail fast' from the point of view of the users who've been around for a while. (NB I'm not suggesting that the Posterous team could/should have done anything differently.)

Edit: FWIW each acquihire-type story nudges me slightly more to consider open-source alternatives, even if they involve some pain to set up/manage. Purely to feel a little more insulated from scenarios like this.

aufreak3• 14 years ago

Totally agree. I liked posterous. I've also wondered out loud whether a similar thing will happen to workflowy as well, which I also love.

Nothing against the guys, they're just optimizing, but it sucks to be on the receiving end. Is web 4.0 going to be a DIY world where vps-es are the only "services" you'll need and other products will have to plug in to what you host on your own vps just like normal purchased desktop software?

athst• 14 years ago

I agree. You can't really criticize someone for selling, maybe they had to do it.

But it really does make you pause the next time you decide to commit to a new company. Today I got reminders in my email about how SimpleGeo and IndexTank will "sunset" their services within the next month after their acquisitions last year. I knew it was coming, but after having to spend all this time removing them from my app, I'll be a little more wary going forward of using third parties in the things that I do.

bambax• 14 years ago

You're right, but there's not much that can be done about it. It's just a fact of life that we have to deal with... and prepare for.

For instance, my blog is on Posterous, but with my own domain, so I can migrate to some other service with no visible disruption.

pron• 14 years ago

As for the effect this has on other start-ups, I think there are two interconnected issues here, one on the buyer side and one on the seller side.

On the seller side, VC investments are to blame, I think, because of their ROI expectations. We are missing a good investment model for successful tech/web businesses that aren't the huge windfalls VCs want, like most businesses in other fields. You could say that angel investment is that model - the problem is that VCs want to invest in many companies, and it's sometimes hard to reject their offer. Once you do take their money, it's hard justifying slow growth and good though less-than-stellar success, and in that case, both the company and its users are "doomed".

And why do VCs want to invest in so many companies? This has to do with the buyer side (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3546629 for an interesting discussion about acquihires from the buyer's perspective). I think they have to invest because they have so much money, they can't accurately identify the stellar companies (well, obviously), and acquisitions give them a good enough ROI to continue doing what they're doing.

tomg• 14 years ago

Nothing on the web should be construed as permanent. Even GOOG, MSFT, and YHOO drop products, change features, etc. It's a risk everyone has to analyse when choosing third-party vendors (GOOG now charges for Maps, for example, and look how many people are revamping their apps to not use them).

Both web and brick/mortar companies can suddenly close shop for a huge amount of reasons, and I have my doubts that "being so talented at what you do that you get bought out" is at the top of too many peoples' worry lists, IMO.

Steveism• 14 years ago

This reminds me of a blog post from Maciej, the creator of Pinboard, regarding why sometimes free services aren't all they're cracked up to be: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

shingen7• 14 years ago

Amazing, a top 500 global site (roughly), that appears likely to just close up shop. What the hell is that?

Hey Twitter, how about you give me the platform, we'll split 50/50 anything I make with it, I'll assume all the downside liability.

Posterous can go a lot further. This is a failure of imagination.

desireco42• 14 years ago

Agreed

chintan• 14 years ago

https://www.quantcast.com/posterous.com

Although this is just a subset of their total traffic, they were consistently doubling traffic every 4 months or so.

shingen7• 14 years ago

Yep, it had a very real business opportunity.

It really does make me want to take a run at getting the platform from Twitter, if they are in fact going to close it down. I've got the perfect name to rebrand it with, far better than the Posterous name.

Twitter might see serious tax benefits from shutting it down after the acquisition unfortunately. To them it might be worth more dead than alive.

robryan3• 14 years ago

I got the feeling that despite being somewhat different to tumblr they were on somewhat of a race with them. They were losing that badly so they kind of reinvented with spaces. I think the tumblr model is certainly more mass market and on the absence of a business model that is turning in more than probably cents per user per year your going to need a crazy large userbase.

minikomi• 14 years ago

Just an aside.. Any idea what the huge spike on Aug 23rd 2010 was?

edit: seems the relaunched with a new design around that time

brk• 14 years ago

Let's say they do give you the platform... What do you think the care of feeding of the servers cost?

shingen7• 14 years ago

A monetized Posterous could be run on 100 or less servers. Tumblr runs on perhaps 1,500x according to High Scalability, and it's at least a few hundred times more nasty than Posterous in terms of server thrasing (pageviews and hits on the data via the dash).

Tumblr daily pageviews: 500m; Posterous daily pageviews: 1m

Posterous would never be a billion dollar service, but it could be the type of service that generates $10m+ in annual profit.

100 servers from a competent host + bandwidth via a pooling deal = less than $50,000 per month. It wouldn't be sexy, but it'd hold.

I wouldn't keep the current Posterous business model of chasing Tumblr into a pool of red ink. I'd place a bet that users will pay for a service that will stick around. It would reduce usage, but there's a large base to monetize that would be willing to stick around.

sidcool• 14 years ago

This is indeed big news.

siculars• 14 years ago

I would have paid for their service. What happens to my blog now? Will all those links get /dev/nulled? Or are we gonna get to set up some 301's?

jarek• 14 years ago

Hahaha. Startups don't do 301s. If you have any questions regarding what will happen to your links, consult http://tr.im/.

Self-host anything you consider important enough to warrant a 301 down the road.

1123581321• 14 years ago

If you used a custom domain you can grab all your URLs and redirect them with rewrites on your new hosting.

nwenzel• 14 years ago

So now when I tweet, will it push that tweet to Twitter so all my Twitter followers will know that I tweeted?

kmfrk2• 14 years ago

Looks like it was your time to move on, Posterous!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455593

If I worked at Tumblr, I'd put the blog post in my link in a glass frame.

robryan3• 14 years ago

Yeah was thinking about that campaign when I saw this thread. Sure it was arrogant and bent the truth but was probably effective at exposing a greater number of users to the platform.

sunnysideup• 14 years ago

Is Twitter profitable? It seems one company without a business model acquires another company without business model?

x5315• 14 years ago

Twitter has a business model. It's working fine. See: http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-interview-twitter-c...

jerrya• 14 years ago

So what would the right approach be, and who would be best to approach Twitter, to convince Twitter to open source the Posterous code?

pnathan• 14 years ago

I am bummed, I liked the Posterous interface pretty nicely.

SapphireSun• 14 years ago

Likewise, it was so simple and elegant. I'm really happy for their employees, but I wish the app would stick around. I'm thinking of migrating to tumblr, and I'm doubly hoping they release a migration tool since tumblr doesn't support imports and copy paste is a bitch.

startupEmployee• 14 years ago

As a startup employee, I'm curious to know how much do employees stand to gain from such talent acquisitions?

jimboyoungblood• 14 years ago

you get to keep your job. that's (usually) better than not having a job.

a4agarwal• 14 years ago

sigh. So much false information in this thread.

Everyone who joined Twitter was handsomely rewarded for their hard work and their accomplishments at Posterous. We're taking much of what we built at Posterous to make Twitter a more powerful platform.

If the employees simply got to keep their job, they wouldn't have accepted the Twitter offer and instead have joined another startup. There are plenty of great opportunities out there.

netmau5• 14 years ago

I guess it's too late to apply.

dredmorbius2• 14 years ago

This would mean that prior to this acquisition, Twitter was preposterous.

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pfraze• 14 years ago

Either you ducked too early, or your XML is malformed.

dredmorbius2• 14 years ago

The ducks tag is always well-formed, by definition.

All your ducks are in a row.

charlieok• 14 years ago

Score one more for people and organizations who invested in running their own site on their own servers (or vm instances).

robertp• 14 years ago

I was an early user of Posterous and got our whole company to setup multiple sub-domains when each of us tweeted out photos. At the time it was the best because you didn't have any ads showing up alongside a photo (like twitpic). Im sad to see posterous otherwise give up and just move to twitter. I feel like if they would have kept innovating 2-3 or so years ago then they would be at a much better place. What are their goals before they got bought? It wasnt clear to me.

chubs• 14 years ago

Can anyone suggest a way to port your posterous blog to tumblr, retaining the url's and the comments (i believe tumblr uses disqus for comments) ?

k-mcgrady• 14 years ago

Tumblr doesn't do comments. You need to add Disqus yourself. The blog post says that Posterous will have export options in the coming weeks.

kevinwdavid• 14 years ago

This was very much expected.Posterous was apparently not doing well. Compared to tumblr, it was to hard to post content. With not much an engaging user base compared to tumblr or wordpress, posterous acquistion by someother company was expected.

usablebytes• 14 years ago

Great. I feel happy for the Posterous guys. Many congratulations!

majani• 14 years ago

Is acquihire just a Silicon Valley concept? Where I'm from, a big company is probably gonna offer you a massive salary rather than buy out a product with no potential.

revorad• 14 years ago

Congrats Sachin and team.

HN Y U SO HATE?

VonLipwig• 14 years ago

This makes you wonder about the current supply of talented developers. Where has that supply gone?

I see no reason why Twitter would aquire Posterous for any reason other than the experience that the staff have. As far as I am aware Posterous doesn't hold any valued patents. It doesn't appear to be leading the way in pioneering technology. I don't really see how the site itself fits in with Twitter's strategy.

It looks like a smash and grab to get more staff. Is this a statement about the typically applicant Twitter recieves when looking to hire? Its also a shame as aquisition's like this are happening more and more often killing off fairly popular websites in the process.

nakkiel• 14 years ago

I think they just want to add more coupling between the two platforms. Sure enough, Twitter could write such a platform on their own but perhaps it's more time-efficient to just buy legacy technology and adapt it. Even more so when you get the staff who built the said technology along with it.

Another aspect is the user-base that will come with Posterous.

skrebbel• 14 years ago

Horrible. Do founders not care about their own products anymore? Or is this just forced-by-the-VCs?

I don't generally mind when this happens with a services firm, or a tool with very few users, but Posterous? We all moved our Wordpresses there. True enough, we all got it for free so we can't complain, but I can't help feel that the Posterous owners let something lovely fly. Ahwell, no 10x ROI eh?

pnayak• 14 years ago

Apart from the employees from posterous, does posterous as a business/brand make sense for twitter? Quite frankly, i don't see any synergies.. Any thoughts..

justinkelly• 14 years ago

As a long time posterous user I'm not happy about this - twitter will put posterous in maintenance mode.

I've decided to do something about it

I've setup http://p.ostero.us A paid Octpress based blogging service for the ex-posterous users - using an awesome blog platform - makes money - and thats not ganna get purchased and killed off

Hopefully this will help other posterous user wondering where to go

* http://p.ostero.us * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3713092

Posterous acquired by Twitter

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