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    Why I’m Moving to Posterous and Leaving TwitPic (and Everything Else Like It) - ChurchCrunch

    Why I’m Moving to Posterous and Leaving TwitPic (and Everything Else Like It)

    Jun 25, 2009 - By John Saddington | Subscribe via RSS | Email Post | Print Post | Tweet This Post!

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    As much as I love and enjoy new and exciting web services and applications I still find it as hard as the next person to “convert” to a new service. I can be often fiercely loyal to certain services and very hestitant to adopt new ones unless there is an obvious (and wide) gap of value discrepancy.

    One such instance recently is Posterous, a simple service that lets you post pretty much anything. I’ve had an account with Posterous for a while but didn’t have a burning need to jump on to it decisively.

    Until now.

    But with recent updates to the service and the fact that I recently bought a new iPhone 3GS with video, I’ve been hunting for the perfect solution for uploading pretty much everything, which is exactly what Posterous does, and it does it well.

    And yeah, I’ve only used it a handful of times; it’s just that good of a service after using it 5 times.

    You see, I want to not only upload images and videos, I want them to connect to my Flickr account as well as provide an opportunity to tweet them out to Twitter and Facebook. I can do this as easily as emailing Post@Posterous.com with whatever media I’d like. It’ll automatically upload images and video to Flickr, tweeting them out to my Twitter, and updating Facebook.

    All I had to do was add the services I wanted:

    addingservices

    Not only that, I can also specify a specific service that I’d like to upload it to by just emailing the appropriate address. So, if I didn’t want to tweet out a video but I did want to make sure it was posted to Facebook and uploaded to Flickr I could email Flickr@Posterous.com and Facebook@Posterous.com instead of the catch-all email Post@Posterous.com.

    It’s almost too easy and it’s impossible for me to forget the right email addresses:

    post

    Amazing. Seriously. This has been such a huge hit for me!

    But the service gets better. Posterous also has built in metrics and analytics, showing you how many people commented, viewed, and starred your post.

    Sweet!

    metrics

    Wow. Posterous even shortens the URL into something friendly like “Post.ly/_________” for you as well. Byebye Bit.ly!

    What else do I like about it? Sheesh. Let me count the ways. A simple search for “uptime” issues didn’t reveal much. Twitpic is historically terrible with uptime and server issues. Posterous is doing just fine. You can also respond to comments via email directly, just like IntenseDebate Comments:

    respond

    Doing a test or two revealed that the response posted near-instantaneously, which was awesome. What else? You can have custom domains, add your own Google Analytics package to get even more metrics and analytics, and the administrate and add other contributors to your Posterous (if you have friends, family, or whomever):

    customize

    It’s gotten to the point where I like it so much I’m heavily considering buying a custom domain just for it. Yeah, that serious.

    Ok, and perhaps one of the most important things is that Posterous posting works with pretty much all of the major desktop apps out there, including my favorite: Tweetie.

    tweetie

    Is there anything more I need to say?

    So, why are you still hanging onto Twitpic? What other services are you using that are far inferior to Posterous?

    Let me know, because I think I found my winner. If you’ve got a Posterous account, let me know in the comments!

    via churchcrunch.com

    • 25 June 2009
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    almost 4 years ago Mauro Magnani responded:
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    Utilizzo Posterous da qualche tempo e devo dire che fino ad oggi non ho trovato di meglio...: http://facening.posterous.com - Si profilano tempi duri per TwitPIc?
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