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Posterous launches super easy Twitter commenting and 2-click Twitter login


Isn't it about time you set up Posterous to autopost to Twitter? Now your readers can leave comments for you and tweet back through Twitter using our new commenting system. It's easier than ever for people to get involved and have a conversation on your blog.

Posterous now also fully supports Twitter's oAuth API for both Posterous users setting up autopost AND your readers who might want to tweet back right from your Posterous blog. For users who are already logged into Twitter, it's a trivial 2 clicks to get connected with Twitter. Click Allow and you're all set.


For users who were using the old way (by giving us your twitter login) -- things will still work just fine and you don't have to lift a finger. But if you'd like, you can delete your old Twitter autopost account at http://posterous.com/autopost and create a new one again. If you happen to change your Twitter password, you'll want to do this too. 

In addition to Twitter, Facebook users can easily comment and share back using Facebook Connect. Twitter/Facebook commenters can also now enter their email address to sign up for comment updates.

As always, email us at help@posterous.com if you're having problems getting things working, and we'll get right back to you ASAP. Thanks for using posterous!

Posted by Garry Tan 

Comments (61)

Apr 03, 2009
AJ McCuller said...
love this feature! nice work.... anynews on an iphone app??
Apr 03, 2009
Aviraj Saluja said...
Great stuff.
Apr 03, 2009
Eric Yap said...
This new feature of autopost from posterous to twitter is great!
Apr 03, 2009
Bryan Hughes said...
Any timeline for adding the "More after the jump..." ability to split a post?
Apr 03, 2009
Foomandoonian said...
Nice! It's thoughtful touches like the preview pane that make Posterous such a nice experience.
Apr 03, 2009
Jon Steinberg said...
This is very impressive
Apr 03, 2009
gunnarr said...
OMG. Posterous does it. Again.
Apr 03, 2009
Daniel said...
This is similar to how I did tweet-comments at http://simsbox.net/p7, except I also set the reply_to_id & import replies.
Apr 03, 2009
shelkie said...
Interesting post--we've been playing with this too. Lately we (www.makefive.com) have been working to remove barriers to entry. The simplicity of Twitter's implementation of OAuth (and Twitter's growing popularity) made us think it was worth integrating.

It hasn't been a particularly smooth process, as Twitter is clearly experiencing growing pains and a lot of latency. But, we do think that giving visitors the option of using their Twitter account instead of registering on our site is a good choice, even if it's a little sluggish at times.

My bet is that we'll see a lot of sites offering the option to authenticate using Twitter in the next few months.

Apr 03, 2009
sean casey said...
You Guys are Great!!
Apr 03, 2009
Todor Christov said...
Congratulations, guys! And thanks!
Apr 03, 2009
Marco F. said...
This is insane. You guys keep adding actual valuable features to Posterous. So glad I'm using it!
Apr 03, 2009
Twitter+Posterous=Twisterous?
Apr 03, 2009
greg_allard said...
using twitter for comments is a cool feature
Apr 03, 2009
TheVicking said...
Wow. That twitter-posterous-thing really works. Fascinating.
Apr 03, 2009
ajcronk said...
this is a great feature. Look forward to adding to a project of mine. Are they python libs?
Apr 03, 2009
kluivers said...
Twitter & Posterous get really intimate this will increase traffic, I'll even post more stuff on posterous
Apr 03, 2009
tommyl said...
Just gets easier all the time. Thanks for adding twitter comments to Posterous.
Apr 03, 2009
goldman said...
Sick!
Apr 03, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Thanks for all the support for the launch of Twitter commenting! It's just still just the beginning for Twitter+Posterous
Apr 03, 2009
Chris Darling said...
Well Done! (Really) Getting better very day! Sahwweeeett!
Apr 03, 2009
maniar said...
Wow ! This is amazing ! Now I wonder if we can extend this functionality to third party blog platforms ?
Apr 03, 2009
John Lew said...
Very nice indeed!
Apr 03, 2009
mynetx said...
*Wonderful* connection of commenting and Twitter!
Apr 03, 2009
iiiccchhhaaa said...
posterous's rocking!
Apr 04, 2009
Kahlil Lechelt said...
Very cool!
Apr 04, 2009
ddenson said...
Awesome, keep up the great work.
Apr 04, 2009
Andy Chen said...
you guys are gods
Apr 04, 2009
i am a little confused about what to do with my twitter autopost set-up........delete it and then redo it?
Apr 04, 2009
oh - and AWESOME!
Apr 04, 2009
j. incabird said...
Posterouslytweeteriffic!!!!
Apr 04, 2009
Vincent Chu said...
@stephanie If you've registered your Twitter account with your username/password you don't have to do anything -- things will still work like before.

But if you feel more comfortable keeping your username/password private, just delete the Twitter account you previously registered with Posterous, and re-register with Twitter OAuth, which keeps your username/password private.

If you have any more questions, email me for more help. (vince@posterous.com)

Apr 04, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Jon, at the bottom of the email there is an "unsubscribe" link that will let you stop receiving updates for this thread. Let me know if that doesn't work!
Apr 05, 2009
ev said...
This is great. Thanks for leading here, guys.
Apr 05, 2009
Miguel Ríos said...
Wow!!! this is just... AWESOME!!!
Apr 05, 2009
wadeis said...
Great work! Great merging of services/access. Congrats!
Apr 05, 2009
lilysweet said...
great. I'll try this.
Apr 05, 2009
josh_hepworth said...
This is a great way to unify two mediums at the benefit of both parties ... however I think 140 characters are needed to react to posts sometimes
Apr 05, 2009
Jane Quigley said...
I love Posterous and they really keep adding great features!
Apr 06, 2009
GoertzGerd said...
wow! interesting!
Apr 07, 2009
Marco F. said...
I mistakenly thought it would be 2-way .. if someone commented at twitter that it'd go into your posterous.. alas, it does not ..
(still very nice though)
Apr 07, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Marco -- picking up twitters about your post will be coming in a future release. We'll probably work something out with our friends at backtype.com who have an awesome Connect API for finding blog mentions in Tweets, Digg, Reddit, Hacker News too.
Apr 08, 2009
Marco F. said...
@Garry, that's very cool! Great work guys.
Apr 10, 2009
Lander Janssens said...
wicked - thanking @pietel for digging this :)
Apr 11, 2009
Andrea Contino said...
Garry, it would be nice to have also friendfeed commenting.
Apr 16, 2009
thesecretdiary said...
It is fab. Thanks.
Apr 18, 2009
unimagination said...
Awesome twitter integration... Must replicate :P
Apr 18, 2009
walter_roth said...
Sweet! Testing 1, 2, 3...
Apr 18, 2009
walter_roth said...
Had to log out of brother's FB account first...2nd try for FB connect...
Apr 20, 2009
bra said...
yo yo
Apr 21, 2009
gonesocial said...
Nice
Apr 26, 2009
atariboy said...
works well!
May 18, 2009
Karen said...
This is nicely integrated
May 19, 2009
chachiversace said...
this is cool. we gotta do this on sling.com. @SlingSays
May 27, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
cool... Posterous launches super easy Twitter commenting and 2-click Twitter login
Jun 30, 2009
withassociates said...
Gratuitously just giving this Tweet comment to Posterous a go! Very impressed. Nicely executed. Wondering what happens if you type a little more... Ah, it keeps going on the comment page but cuts the Tweet. Nice.

Seriously guys. Very jealous we didn't act on the same idea sooner. Pipped to the post!

Finally a commenting method with a more transparent level of accountability.

Jul 07, 2009
frankconway said...
This is cool. Well done Posterous team
Sep 03, 2009
Svartling said...
If I have added 2 Twitter accounts, how can I choose which to use when commenting?
Sep 03, 2009
Svartling said...
No matter how i do it, it always get the wrong Twitter account...
Sep 03, 2009
Svartling said...
Now I have added "the right" account twice (!?) How can that be possible?. Lets see if it working now...
Sep 03, 2009
Svartling said...
Then it worked! Sp now I have to @svartling accounts and one @swartling account added to my Posterous..

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