Everyone who joined Twitter was handsomely rewarded for their hard work and their accomplishments at Posterous. We're taking much of what we built at Posterous to make Twitter a more powerful platform.
If the employees simply got to keep their job, they wouldn't have accepted the Twitter offer and instead have joined another startup. There are plenty of great opportunities out there.
easy there bro. There were already restrictions on education purchases when I did this. I worked with the bookstore director directly to buy in volume. It was all in the open.
You can still use Posterous Spaces as a public blog. Each space can be public or private.
We're solving a similar problem as google circles. The basic difference is that Posterous Spaces are symmetric sharing so all members of a space can post.
Thanks for the comment. Nothing has changed with how you can use Posterous for Sites or Groups. It's simpler, cleaner, better designed, more user focused, better mobile app, and a strong social layer.
We found our users loved having more control over how they share online. So instead of having 2 products, we simplified into one to rule them all.
You can still use Posterous Spaces as a blogging platform. We haven't removed any of the features that make Posterous great for public sharing. We made everything simpler, more social, and added a great iPhone app.
Our web editor is definitely in need of some love, and we'll be updating that later this year.
We're changing our "post" links to all go to the web editor. While email is still the #1 way our users post to posterous, those already on the web want to stay on the web.
For images: we default to grouping them together into a gallery. But you can also separate them out into individual photos.
We were seeing some high load times earlier this month because of increased traffic. but earlier this week we added a bunch of boxes, cached most pages, and generally improved the speed of the site across the board.
better member management (people don't have to create accounts); photos, video, audio, documents are all supported natively; web view is far superior. Give it a shot and let us know what you think!