In that vein, closing Posterous to new sign-ups would make sense. The second possibility is a little more pedestrian: the site may simply be experiencing a technical glitch. Posterous has had more than one of these over the last several months, including a service outage due to a lost database , a DDOS attack , and image uploading issues.
One sign that this may not be a technical glitch, though, is that Posterous is usually quick to respond to and fix problems — eg, this problem with photo uploads from about 16 hours ago — whereas the error for new-sign-ups has been ongoing for at least a week, and there have been no public responses made to people asking about it. The Fallout When Posterous went dark, it left a lot of blogs without a home, and a lot of bloggers looking for a new service to host them.
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Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Get Premium Content Free. Send this to a friend. Send Cancel. Twitter announced that it's purchasing blogging platform Posterous. Publishing platform Posterous just posted on its company blog that it has been acquired by Twitter.
Like Tumblr, the Posterous was built around making sharing content from around the web incredibly easy, with simple templates for sharing video, text, and other categories of content. It looks like most of the Posterous team, including engineers and product managers will be making the jump over to Twitter, and Posterous notes that its Spaces service will "remain up and running without disruption. Twitter is increasingly highlighting other types of content, as evidenced by its most recent redesigns.
The new site design adds all sorts of in-line image and video integration, and the new Discover tab brings a similar media functionality to the company's mobile apps. If Twitter's going to continue expanding media integration across its platform, today's Posterous acquisition of talent and technology should help the company grow beyond characters. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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