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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Future of Blog: Posterous Acquired by Twitter

It is with a good deal of uncertainty that I'm writing this since Posterous has been acquired (a talent acquisition instead of product or service) by Twitter recently (http://blog.posterous.com/big-news).  While nothing is definite yet, the writing is on the wall and it looks like Posterous might likely be shut down.  As millions of users could attest, we love the Posterous platform because of the clean interface, simplicity and ease of use.  

The good thing is I've set up the Posterous blog (http://themoviemaven.posterous.com) nearly two years ago to automatically cross-post to Blogger (and Wordpress, although WP doesn't retain the tags or categories), so the content is by and large, safe (although a few articles are not searchable or missing, or corrections/minor edits made on Posterous after posting did not get posted).  The bad thing is there are live links or image galleries within the posts that point back to Posterous.  Unfortunately, if Posterous were gone completely (ala Gowalla once they're acquired by Facebook), there might likely be a mass of broken links... I don't think there's any way to re-map those links.

Anyway, I will keep posting to Posterous in the meantime (which is automatically cross-posted to Blogger), but will start directing any future links (to select prior articles) to Blogger.  

Check out the blog on Blogger: http://sdmoviemaven.blogspot.com  Aside from the look of the site, it has nearly identical content. Thanks for reading!