10 Facts About Posterous

1.

Posterous was a simple blogging platform started in May 2008.

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2.

Many social media pundits considered Posterous to be the leading free application for lifestreaming.

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3.

Posterous had its own URL shortening service, which as of March 2010 could post to Twitter.

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4.

Posterous shut down in April 2013, after being acquired by Twitter the previous year.

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5.

Posterous allowed posting of content directly to one's blog via e-mail, choosing where to put the content based on the return address of the e-mail.

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6.

Posterous claimed that they could filter out messages not actually sent by the account holder through other means besides the return address.

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7.

Posterous did not offer any options for the user to require confirmation on all posts, no matter who sends them.

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8.

Three posters were successful, out of quite a few attempts, but Posterous quickly fixed the security hole which allowed these posts to go through.

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9.

In January 2011, Posterous launched an app for the Android platform which was supported by 9 different phone models.

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10.

Until the Posterous API was shut down, Posterous users could export their data to their new Posthaven account.

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