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What are your thoughts on Posterous? (8 posts)

Topic tags: Blogger, blogging, Posterous, TypePad, Wordpress

Mellissa Thomas said
12 months ago:
Usually the blog competition is between Blogger and Wordpress, with Tumblr and Typepad kind of chillin’ in the background, but what of Posterous? Do you guys use that platform? How is your user experience with it? What are your thoughts about it?
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Kristi Hines said
12 months ago:
@mellissathomas I’ve used Posterous once as part of a collaborative photoblog where anyone was allowed to register and post photos. It’s not a bad system, but it didn’t seem like it had much room for customization. I would say in terms of customization, it goes (from most options to least):
- WordPress (self-hosted)
- WordPress (.com)
- Blogger
- Tumblr
- Posterous
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Erik Deckers said
12 months ago:
@mellissathomas I like Posterous, but they were recently bought by Twitter and the buzz is that this was strictly a talent grab, and not a “hey, this is cool technology” grab.
If you read Posterous’ FAQ on the buyout, you can see they keep making poorly-veiled references to their imminent demise. So, I would skip Posterous and go with Tumblr instead.
My personal favorite is a self-hosted WordPress (.org) site because it can do so much more than any other platform. Sort of like owning a race car when all your friends own mopeds. But if you just want something to goof around on, Tumblr is a good one.
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Mellissa Thomas said
12 months ago:
Kristi, that’s interesting – Posterous is actually more restrictive than Blogger. Wow. How did that photoblog fare in terms of audience engagement? Is it still active? @kristi-hines
Erik, thanks for your input as well. I’m on Blogger now, but definitely intend to make the switch to self-hosted WP once I can afford to since that option offers the most customization (so many beautiful theme providers out there), and am fiddling with a WP.com account just to start learning the ropes.
Isn’t Tumblr mainly for microblogging and content curation, though, or can you make full-length posts there? @erikdeckers
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Kristi Hines said
12 months ago:
@mellissathomas I think it is at least, from the few times I’ve tried to use it. Maybe it’s about the same for someone who knows what they are doing.
The collaborative blog seems to get a lot of views (according to the stats with each post) but it doesn’t get a lot of interaction (social shares, comments). I’m guessing the majority of hits are from people who just submitted or are about to submit a photo and they’re checking out the competition. :)
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Mellissa Thomas said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for your expertise, Erik and Kristi.
@erikdeckers I was wondering why Twitter bothered with that buyout – I’d heard about it, though the news barely drew any attention. Trust me, I’ve pretty much made up my mind to switch to a self-hosted Wordpress.org site from Blogspot. I’ve seen some Tumblr sites and I realize that service isn’t really a good fit for what I’m doing.
@kristi-hines Glad the site’s doing well with views. Do you know if social engagement was the initial goal of the site, or is the blog author satisfied with the minimal interaction?
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Kyle Jones said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
I’ve tried posterous and Blogger but the self-hosted version of WP, by far, exceeds expectations when comparing it to the first two. While I like Tumblr, I keep going back to WP.
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LdyLarke said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
I’ve tried it but I don’t like it nearly as much as Wordpress.
If Matt Cutts (head of the webspam team at Google) openly endorses Wordpress vs Googles own Blogger platform, that speaks volumes. ’nuff said
If you are serious about blogging, intend to make money off it, you NEED to get off the free site hosts. The search engines give you a negative knock for being hosted on a free site. Seriously.
Go self-hosted. It’s pretty cheap and so worth it.
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