New: post to Posterous via SMS!

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July 20, 2008

You can now post to your Posterous via SMS on your mobile phone when you are on the go! Just send a message to 41411 with the word 'posterous' followed by your message. It will be on your site instantly.

This only works in the United States for now, but we're actively looking for SMS gateways we can use internationally.

If you're already a posterous user, register your mobile phone number with us now.

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Posted by Sachin Agarwal

Comments (19)

Jul 20, 2008

loc ngo said...

sweet, death to twitter! (: you guys do need your own shortcode though.

Jul 21, 2008

WeeKee said...

too short to be useful?

Jul 21, 2008

Garry Tan said...

Tell that to the wireless carriers, who also charge exorbitantly for such a basic infrastructural service. =)

Jul 25, 2008

Ricky Domingo said...

Is it possible to include a setting so that when I send a SMS to my Posterous, it doesn't reply back to me with a SMS?

Jul 30, 2008

Sachin Agarwal said...

Hi Ryan. We are hoping to have our own SMS short code eventually, but they cost us a lot of money and we can't afford that right now. The system we are using now through 41411 is completely free to use (asides from normal SMS costs). Thanks!

Aug 07, 2008

caine said...

Is it possible to pose videos to posterous via SMS? If so, how do you do this? I'm trying, but 41411 keeps returning errors.

Aug 07, 2008

Sachin Agarwal said...

Right now we only support text via SMS. but we hope to support photos and more soon! Thanks.

Aug 30, 2008

ljo said...

is it possible to sms to blog and it show up as text, not the blog title? i checked 41411.com but i couldn't find any tips. thanks =)

Aug 30, 2008

Sachin Agarwal said...

Not currently. SMS posts show up in the title of the post only. I guess showing the post in the body would make sense for large messages. We'll work on a good way to handle that. Thanks!

Aug 30, 2008

Garry Tan said...

Not at the moment. What would you want in the subject, then?

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Aug 30, 2008

ljo said...

Wow, thanks for the fast reply! Both of you! To answer Garry's question, if there was a way to differentiate POST title: and body: or even generate an automatic title/subject. The title is less important to me than the content.

Feb 17, 2009

George said...

Do you have an actual phone number I can text to? My carrier doen't support short codes. Thanks.

Mar 08, 2009

WinterFest Golf said...

"if there was a way to differentiate POST title: and body: or even generate an automatic title/subject. The title is less important to me than the content."
This would be awesome!

May 01, 2009

Dan Williams said...

Really want to use this feature, please bring it to the UK!!!

Jun 29, 2009

Ken Carpenter said...

I agree with: WinterFest Golf said... "if there was a way to differentiate POST title: and body: or even generate an automatic title/subject. The title is less important to me than the content."
This would be awesome!

Jul 19, 2009