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July 22, 2008

Control where your content is posted

Thanks for all the feedback about our new Autopost feature. We're really excited about being the gateway for you to post your content to all the services you use on the web.

Now you can control which posts get posted to the other services by emailing your posts to different email addresses. Just send your posts to:

post@posterous.com : posts are posted to your posterous, as well as any flickr and twitter accounts registered with us

posterous@posterous.com : posts are posted to your posterous but not on the other services

twitter@posterous.com : posts are posted to your posterous and twitter accounts are updated

flickr@posterous.com : posts are posted to your posterous and photos are pushed to flickr

Happy posting!



Comments (19)
July 22, 2008

Ivan Lanin said...
Wow, a smart and easy way to implement! Great job.

July 22, 2008

Reder said...
Sweet new feature! Nice!

July 23, 2008

Retno Nindya said...
Very nice! :D Love it. Thanks guys :) Great job :)

July 23, 2008

Linda Blakely said...
Two snaps up!

July 23, 2008

Sunny said...
Cool ~ Thanks!

July 23, 2008

Joshua Tompkins said...
I was wondering how you'd manage this. Great work!

July 23, 2008

Antonio D'souza said...
I like your solution: simple and elegant :-)
Can you now parse the title info added to emails by iPhoto so the pics can have individual captions?

July 23, 2008

Edward Ross said...
This is fantastic news. Thank you so much for this.

July 23, 2008

Tycen Stafford said...
That is a cool way to do it - thanks!

July 24, 2008

Michele said...
This is great! Thanks!

July 24, 2008

anthony marco said...
very cool... I'm thinking within a couple of months there will have to be: twitterflickrfacebookbutnotplurkpowncedigg@posterous.com

July 24, 2008

Antonio D'souza said...
Anthony: not at all; it'd just need to be twitter.flickr.facebook@posterous.com

July 24, 2008

Svartling said...
Cool. How many minutes are the posts delayed before they will be posted to Twitter?

July 24, 2008

Garry Tan said...
LOL, well we were thinking of doing twitter+facebook@posterous.com kind of notation. +'s look so much nicer. Or possibly dashes as well. =)

We had a server error last night that caused a background process to go down. We've fixed this error and have now made sure that the problem that held up twitter messages for the past few hours will not occur again. They should always appear instantly, and if they're not, please click Feedback or email us at help@posterous.com to let us know, and we'll fix it asap.

Thanks for using posterous, and for the feedback. Keep your ideas coming! =)

July 24, 2008

Svartling said...
Well it took my message around 15 min, but I can live with that :)

July 24, 2008

Stephanie said...
Holy cow Garry, this is awesome. I was wondering how you would allow 3-party posting, and now that I see it, the solution is so simple. I was just posting on LiveJournal today that I can't wait for Posterous to support LJ - I think I would be much more active.

Keep up the good work.

July 25, 2008

Nam Le said...
Clean, simple but may get out of hand if more requests comes down the line. Keep it up though.

July 25, 2008

Ari Gordon-Schlosberg said...
I was thinking that to do multiple services, just address the email to multiple addresses. So addressing to twitter@posterous.com and facebook@posterous.com would post to both services. But the + notation works too.

August 25, 2008

Evan Bartlett said...
You can also just cc: those other services in your email. I've been posting to all those sites at once on a blackberry. I even created groups, so that I could just select one group, and it would insert the email addresses to post to flickr, tumblr, etc

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