Posterous FTW!

More and more people are using Posterous currently. And it is not difficult to imagine why.
 
Posterous is, quite literally, dead-simple. Just email your stuff, be it text, movies, images, documents, sounds, and it'll be published in a great way for everybody, or only the people you want to, to read. And the user support from Sachin and Gary is also excellent!
 
My whole web "life" is now centered around Posterous; I've set up 4 Posterous sites:
http://post.marcof.net - my main posterous where I keep my blog
http://pix.marcof.net - my photography portfolio
http://bibble-expert.com - the site where I want to post tips about Bibble 5
 
And last, but not least:
http://tweets.marcof.net - my tweesterous site where I put all my tweetpics.
 
The Posterous API enables twitter clients to post images to Posterous.

I've been using Tweetie on my iPhone for a long time, but that one still doesn't support Posterous.

However, an excellent alternative (with some quirks, but that's being worked on) is SimplyTweet (to be found here: http://motionobj.com/simplytweet ). SimplyTweet not only supports the Posterous API, but it is (I think) the only one that fully supports the multi-image posting in a correct way, namely not a post per image, but a post with all images for that post/tweet included.

Now all that needs to be implemented to make it even cooler for tweeting is:

  • API search possibilities
  • a way to have tweet text inside the body instead of post header
  • an alternative to "twitlonger". Use posterous for longer than 140 character tweets.

And possibly more neato stuff....

In any case, the future looks bright for Posterous, it's about time to conquer the world!

Oh, I'm still waiting for Posterous merchandise ;-)

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Ooh Posterous merchandise! Whatever happened to that?
— Aviraj Saluja
The Posterous API allows already allows posting to both the title/header and the body of a post.

I (SimplyTweet dev) decided to put the tweet text into the Posterous post and leave the body empty since the tweet text can be assumed to be fairly short.

Other than as a twitlonger alternative (I have been toying with that idea in my mind for quite a while now), is there any case where you want the tweet text to go into the body instead of title/header?

— Hwee-Boon Yar
@hboon whenever there's a URL in the tweet, I think it is best in the body. Can hashtags be posterous tags, actually?
— Marco Frissen
Re: URL in tweet, I suppose you are referring to what is currently supported by SimplyTweet, i.e. just photos and not longer posts? It's slightly troublesome to get a URL into iPhone Twitter clients at the moment, other than with bookmarklets or posting from the builtin browser. Of course this will change with copy-n-paste, but I can't think of an example offhand. Can you give an example of what URL you would include in a photo post? or a case where the tweet text shouldn't be the title?

For longer posts (remember the context is I haven't done this yet, but I'm fairly interested in this without making the UI too complicated), it should be possible to set the hashtags as Posterous tags. And I can do something like set the first sentence (or first few words) and make it the title, and the entire text as the body.

For photos, the Posterous API doesn't allow specifying of Posterous tags (for now, at least).

— Hwee-Boon Yar
We can very easily add a way to set tags via the twitter api (you already can using our normal posting api)

You can do it now also, by putting the tags into the title of the post (the 'message' param). Basically something like this:

message="This is the tweet text ((tags:tag1, tag2))

We won't actually post the tags in the title, just add them as tags on the side. This is how you tag via email, and it works anywhere you can put a title

— Sachin Agarwal
Ah great. Just tried. It works beautifully. I just need to do some simple conversion on the client side to get it to work for hashtags.
— Hwee-Boon Yar
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