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May 26, 2009

Posterous image posting is now available in the top twitter clients!

We're proud to announce broad support of the Posterous API for image posting through the most awesome twitter clients out there. In addition to posting, many of these clients have added inline viewing of Posterous photos and media, and even voice upload (Pichirp) via iPhone!

To enable Posterous as your image host, you'll need to go into the settings for the twitter client and set Posterous as your image posting service.

Is your favorite client not here?
Posterous now supports a rich API that is also 100% compatible with TwitPic. We've added extensions that let you post music, video and files of any kind (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) so you can do even more with Posterous than any other hosting service / blog platform. Send feedback to your favorite clients telling them about our API, and let us know too.

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Posted by Garry Tan 

Comments (70)

May 26, 2009
Aviraj Saluja said...
Good stuff. I wish to see TweetDeck in that list. I'm a little surprised they haven't integrated Posterous yet, considering they use it for their official blog. Here's hoping...
May 26, 2009
Daniel Brusilovsky said...
Just goes to show that Posterous is a great service! Congrats!
May 26, 2009
Marco F. said...
Great news. I hope tweetie iphone will be updated to include posterous soon. And that posting multiple images into one posterous-post will be implemented by the clients soon.
May 26, 2009
Edward Kaufholz said...
Nice job Posterous. Nice job indeed.
May 26, 2009
Hwee-Boon Yar said...
Marco, SimplyTweet is already posting multiple images into a single Posterous post.
May 26, 2009
Justin Thiele said...
That's great news, guys! I'm with Aviraj, here's to hoping it gets integrated with TweetDeck!
May 26, 2009
mike p said...
any chance we'll see posterous support in any of the blackberry apps? socialscope, ubertwitter, twitterberry, etc?
May 26, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@mike p vPost http://vpost.vayyoo.com is a great way to email multiple photos and video from your bb, and then let us update your twitter through autopost

(not that same thing, i know, but a pretty good solution)

May 26, 2009
ravi said...
Great news. One missing Twitter client, Nambu for Mac, I am afraid may never see support, since Nambu integrates with their own services (tr.im, pic.im, etc). May be time to move to Tweetie...
May 26, 2009
Edward Kaufholz said...
I made a quick pictorial of how to setup iPhone/Twittirific for Posterous use. Everyone probably knew how to do it already, but it took me a min. to figure so I thought I'd share.

http://abitohelp.posterous.com/iphone-setup-for-posterous-on-twitterrific

May 26, 2009
Ian May said...
I'd like to see UberTwitter integration too. It's the best Twitter Blackberry client in my opinion.
May 26, 2009
Jeff Zephix Muzila said...
You have to get on Tweetie for the iPhone version. That is the BIGTIME main one.
May 26, 2009
Enrique said...
Great Posterous, congratulations !
May 26, 2009
Mark Clark said...
I installed Power Twitter for Firefox, and the first thing I noticed when I went to my Twitter page is that all the links posted by people I'm following all showed up as descriptive links. Except, of course, links to Posterous. Those were non-clickable text descriptions.

Uninstalled it already.

May 26, 2009
Contd said...
Twittercontd also has the integration done with posterous and allows 1250 characters to tweet at http://www.twittercontd.com
May 26, 2009
Guillermo P said...
I'm the developer of Pichirp & Pichirp Pro and want to clarify one minor point: voice upload is currently in review and will be featured in v1.5 expected out this weekend.

Pichirp Pro currently has the v1.3 feature set and doesn't support Posterous yet, but Pichirp (free version) is v1.4 and does support photo upload for Posterous.

With v1.5 both the paid and free version will have support for Posterous!

I'm a big fan of Posterous and look forward to further integrating with it in the future

May 27, 2009
Marco F. said...
@Hwee-Boon Yar thanks I'll try Simply Tweet
May 27, 2009
Tane Piper said...
What I noticed is a distinct lack of Android apps there! Sucks for us users of Twidroid.
May 27, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@Tane I just contacted Twidroid now so hopefully they will decide to add support for us. You should email them also and encourage them :)
May 27, 2009
Irsan Widarto said...
if I post my image this way, will it be published to my existing Posterous stream?
May 27, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
yes, if you have autopost setup on Posterous, using one of these twitter clients will post to your existing posterous site
May 27, 2009
Irsan Widarto said...
thx Sachin, what if I have 2 streams: can I select which one to post too?
May 27, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
not currently. It always goes to your default Posterous site. Later we'll offer a way for the twitter clients to show you a list of your sites and choose one, but that will be up to them to actually implement
May 27, 2009
Irsan Widarto said...
...and I just discovered the "set primary" button, so that'll work for me, you guys rule/rock/reign!
May 27, 2009
Tal Shafik said...
It's Gravity for S60, not N60. Besides that, awesome service.
May 27, 2009
Matthew Ford said...
This feature is what made me switch from tumbler.
May 27, 2009
Matthew Ford said...
Just noticed a 502 error, are you running on passenger + nginx by any chance? I've had this prob with sinatra and nginx.
May 27, 2009
coderanger said...
BTW http://www.coderanger.com/twitcher/ has supported Posterous since inception, just thought it might be nice to add it to the list
May 27, 2009
Bob Wilson said...
another vote for setting this up with tweetie for the iPhone
May 27, 2009
Tal Shafik said...
It's all set on Posteruos's side. You need to contact Tweetie support for this to happen.

May 27, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
great news of posterous image posting is now available in the top twitter clients!
May 27, 2009
is me! said...
Is mms going to be supported anytime soon? My cell phone doesn't work with the internet but does work with mms.
May 28, 2009
mike p said...
I hate to threadjack, but...
Prabhpreet Dua -- have you ever tried to send an mms to a real email address?
May 28, 2009
is me! said...
@mike yes, but posterous requires activation, which requires internet which i do not have!
May 29, 2009
Madison said...
i already have a posterous blog, but when i set up tweetie for mac to post all images to posterous, it made a new posterous blog for me and posted it there. i want it to post to my existing posterous blog. please?! thank you!
May 29, 2009
gillardg said...
MyTweeter will have posterous support in the next version ( coming on monday 1 june 2009 )
check http://gillardg.posterous.com
we allready have an automatic #followfriday feature
thank you for the help of the posterous team
for debugging the http request
May 29, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@Madison simply setup autopost and it will post to your existing site:
posterous.com/autopost
May 30, 2009
Matt Hoult said...
I wish @tweetie and @posterous played a little nicer - see my list http://digg.com/u14RVb
May 31, 2009
John said...
I think posterous is taking a great approach to blogging and I like this new feature. I use Twitteriffic and noticed Posterous as an option in the settings. I've already tried my first photo post via twitterific but I notice the text I type in my tweet doesn't get passed on to my posterous blog, only the photo. What's up with this. Great work guys but is this an oversight that can be fixed soon. Would seal the deal for me. Been looking for a simple blog to integrate easily with my twitter.
Jun 01, 2009
gillardg said...
MyTweetter version 1.5 http://post.ly/iXR #twitterapp also have posterous support
Jun 02, 2009
is me! said...
so when is customization of posterouses coming up?
Jun 04, 2009
Andrew Becker said...
I have to +1 Aviraj about TweetDeck. They know how great posterous is so I was expecting them to go the extra mile to work with posterous.
Jun 05, 2009
423redr said...
More kudos for SimplyTweet here! Hwee has implemented a nice feature where the hash tags at the end of a tweet are converted to Posterous tags! You can also tweet longer than 140 characters to posterous and it trunicates the tweet with a link to posterous. Two great services that solved all my issues!
Jun 05, 2009
Hwee-Boon Yar said...
Actually, it converts all the hashtags to Posterous tags, but it removes hashtags at the end of the tweet when posting as the title since it's common for people to append hashtags for the purpose of tagging.

And tag support is only in the beta, so don't go looking for it yet.

"Hwee-Boon". Yes that's the first name :)

Jun 06, 2009
Jeff Henshaw said...
@Madison Kinnard, I also have an existing Posterous blog. When I used Tweetie, it apparently authed to Posterous via the email address that I have in my Twitter settings because the photo *did* get posted to my existing default Posterous blog. Have you double-checked your email setting in your Twitter account to ensure it matches what you post to Posterous with?

@Sachin - is the behavior I'm seeing expected? Not sure why autopost would be required in this scenario.

Jun 06, 2009
Madison said...
@Jeff Henshaw, I got it! Thanks!


Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Jun 06, 2009
Jeff Henshaw said...
@Madison Kinnard - glad you're up and running. This is a cool feature. And @Sachin, I thought about it for a minute and realized that autopost is what is aware of your twitter account, so I get it now. :-)

This is a really cool feature. I'm nagging Tweetie to add support to their next iPhone client.

Jun 06, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Where a twitter client posts doesn't have anything to do with which email address is on your Posterous or Twitter.

If the twitter username you use in the twitter client matches a twitter username in autopost, the photo goes to that posterous site.

Jun 06, 2009
Mika Ariyama said...
it'd be nice if tweetie for iphone makes onto the list~
keep up the good work~!
Jun 16, 2009
xlerate said...
Is it possible to add support for TwitterFox for Firefox?
Jun 16, 2009
Garry Tan said...
xlerate -- you'll need to bug the creators of TwitterFox directly for them to write support. Just point them at http://posterous.com/api =)
Jul 11, 2009
Mike Krus said...
Would be nice if the title of the post would be automatically set from the tweet containing the image... Avoids untitled posts...
Jul 11, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Mike, we already support that on our end, but it's up to the Twitter client to send the tweet to us. I know simplytweet for iPhone supports this. If your favorite Twitter client doesn't, email them :)
Jul 18, 2009
John Haydon said...
Great news! What would be great is if tools like #Seesmic and #Tweetdeck could pull in your Posterous friends (like they do with Facebook)
Jul 25, 2009
Gilad Steinberger said...
is there an option to post from Gravity to my Posterous account? Because i didn't found any place in Gravity to enter my Posterous credentials :(
Aug 24, 2009
kapone said...
I am sure everyone is tierd of me yappin about Windows Mobile, but any chance Pocket Twit for WinMo or ANY WinMo twitter clients will be added?
Aug 25, 2009
gillardg said...
@kapone I have a class in vb.net that can be translated to C# and should work for Window Mobile.

Pöcket Twit is an open source project hosted on google Code http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/

contact me for more info

Aug 25, 2009
kapone said...
@gillardg I have pockettwit but have never programmed in C# and has been years since I did any work in VB. I guess I will have to wait around until someone great ports or makes a WinMo client that posts to posterous. Thanks for the reply however, and the info I will look the PT open source pages over.
Nov 08, 2009
conard peacock said...
perfect!
Nov 09, 2009
Ervin Ter said...
This is perfectly fit me into more interactive social experience.
Nov 12, 2009
rekultivator said...
I don't know why,but autoposting from my posterous to my twitter is not working. Everything is set up. It works only when I manually click on autopost.
Nov 12, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
rekultivator, the email address you are posting from is not on your account. Add it in the email settings portion of the manage page. Email help@posterous.com if you need more assistance. 
Nov 13, 2009
Still Dreaming Nerd said...
my autoposting is troubling me. My twitter gets failure always.
Nov 14, 2009
SG Travel Cafe said...
Definitely Tweetdeck in this list pls!
Nov 16, 2009
jottpeeh said...
another wish for tweetdeck in your list
Nov 18, 2009
Jürgen Bo. said...
Nice Job !
Nov 19, 2009
demostene said...
nice :)
Nov 19, 2009
Srinivasan Jayaraman said...
What's the politics of leaving TweetDeck out? Makes posterous poorer.
Nov 19, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Srinivasan, we aren't leaving Tweetdeck out. They have not added Posterous integration. Please contact Tweetdeck and let them know you want to see Posterous as an option.
Nov 22, 2009
2le'y: ever evolving gift said...
Man, today is a great day!!

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