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September 24, 2009

Posterous Tip: Turn Posterous tags into autoposted Twitter #hashtags

We all know that Posterous is the easiest way to share photos and videos with your friends on Twitter. Now, we've just added a new feature that turns tags on Posterous into #hashtags when you autopost to Twitter or any other microblog.

For instance:

Subject: It really does smell like teen spirit ((tag: grunge, nirvana))

becomes:


To enable this feature, just edit the "Advanced Settings" of your Twitter autopost site by visiting the autopost page and add "{{hash_tags}}" to your custom footer:

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Posted by Vincent Chu 

Comments (47)

Sep 24, 2009
Roland Studer said...
Why not make this a default?
Sep 24, 2009
Greg Tracy said...
super smart feature!

next feature... adding @username tags without putting them in the subject line? that would be terrific.

Sep 24, 2009
Mike Krus said...
and why not support #hashtag directly? should be safe in the email title no?
Sep 24, 2009
Fadi Rizk said...
simplytweet did this but in reverse.......twitter hashtags turned into posterous tags
Sep 24, 2009
Vincent Chu said...
@roland My feeling is that some people would hate it as a default, and some would love it. Since we started off with it off by default, I think it's just safer to keep it that way.

@mike Yes, you could always just put the #tags in the subject line, so that's a perfectly valid way, especially if you only want to hashtag on occasion.

Sep 24, 2009
José Pablo Leandro Martín said...
Hummm, well i think there's a posibility of having troubles with the number of tags and amount of characters allowed on twitter.
Sep 24, 2009
Aviraj Saluja said...
I'm with Greg. I'd love to add @username tags without them showing up in the subject line. I do understand that this may be complicated and hence not possible, but see if it is.
Sep 24, 2009
Andrew Ledwith said...
This is great. One Posterous I contribute to is a podcast, and hashtags in iTunes just seemed like a big mess.
Sep 24, 2009
kevin lochner said...
@jose - sounds like a feature request - check the title for twitter length restrictions, since most of us probably autopost to twitter.
Sep 24, 2009
Vincent Chu said...
@jose We check the length of your title and append as many tags as we can before running out of space. So you should not see any cut-off tags, etc..
Sep 24, 2009
(``-_-´´) BUGabundo said...
Hey Vincent thanks for picking my suggestion and making it all about twitter :\
Sep 24, 2009
Joe Dawson said...
I would like an easier opt in/out but nice work and I'm sure that this will quickly become a popular feature with Twitter users!
Sep 24, 2009
Mark Krynsky said...
I'd like to see this option for supporting tags available to Delicious as well.
Sep 24, 2009
Vincent Chu said...
@mark We already support tagging to Delicious. They should get passed along automatically.
Sep 24, 2009
(``-_-´´) BUGabundo said...
Vincent do you mind deleting this SPAM comment ? thanks
Sep 24, 2009
Olexandr Prokhorenko said...
Are there any chances to tag posts also in Blogger and LiveJournal?
Sep 24, 2009
Lee Hinde said...
I could test this, but to reduce Twitter noise, I'll ask... Do these tags become Posterous tags for that post as well?
Sep 24, 2009
Mark Krynsky said...
@vincent then I guess what I want is tagging to be added to the bookmarklet :)
Sep 24, 2009
Vincent Chu said...
@lee Yes - they are normal posterous tags. We then turn these tags into #hashtags (space permitting)

@mark You can already tag in the bookmarklet. Just add:
((tag: foo, bar, baz, bif)) to the subject and they will become tags.

Sep 25, 2009
Pascual Cora said...
This is great guys!!! Keep up bringing them new features out.
Sep 25, 2009
Joshua Guffey said...
That's great.

What about Wordpress blog tags?

Sep 25, 2009
Tristán Elósegui said...
Nueva funcionalidad de Posterous convierte sus tags en #hastags en Twitter ((tag: Posterous))
Sep 25, 2009
John Coffey said...
Nice for some but not for me. I like to keep my Tweets as short as possible.
Sep 25, 2009
maelcum said...
Hi, thanks for the tip.
Could you please elaborate a little on how to "…add "{{hash_tags}}" to your custom footer…".
I've successfully themed my posterous site, but I can't find a footer anywere…
Sep 25, 2009
maelcum said...
Stupid me! Sorry for the post above. Found it. Was on the wrong track.
Sep 26, 2009
ohsweet said...
nice
Sep 26, 2009
Mark said...
Thank you for this post. I think that this article useful to everyone!!
Sep 26, 2009
Mark said...
Thank you for this post. I think that this article useful to everyone!!
Sep 26, 2009
Vincent Chu said...
@Joshua Guffey Tags on Posterous are sent to wordpress as "categories." However, due to a Wordpress quirk, these categories must already exist on your wordpress beforehand, otherwise they won't get posted.
Sep 27, 2009
Danica Sevilla said...
Sounds like a good idea. I likes it a lots.
Sep 28, 2009
MichaelCooper said...
This is a great blog site but your explanation of the hashtags is severely lacking. Why hide it from the unadvanced who don't understand Japanese. Do a short video demonstrating your language here.
Sep 28, 2009
Eric Johnson said...
This is terrific -- thanks!
Sep 28, 2009
Joshua Guffey said...
I'd just really like it if my posterous tags converted to wordpress tags upon autopost.  Posterous staff?  Are you listening?  =)


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Sep 29, 2009
Marco F. said...
yes yes yes, I remember requesting this (at least something like that ;-))
great job guys! (again)
Sep 29, 2009
Tony "Frosty" Welch said...
Ok I'm dense - but it did take me awhile to figure out the "advanced settings" was on the actual Twitter autopost page.
Sep 30, 2009
heath lennon said...
wow! this is kinda exciting. thanks admin for giving this plugin to us, users.
Oct 02, 2009
Sindhu Sundar said...
Which is pretty awesome cause if you have enabled you the application - "selective twitter status" (lets you post selective tweets to facebook with a #fb tag), then you can selectively post to twitter (twitter@posterous.com) and _then_ autopost the same to facebook with the tag!.... wew. atleast better than friendfeed aggregating and eating up it's own tail :P
Oct 04, 2009
joe said...
im lost ,its gonna take me awihe to figure this one out
Oct 04, 2009
leam smith said...
autopost really helps, thanks admin!
Oct 18, 2009
Erica said...
I'd really love tags on Posterous to also be tags on LJ and other blog sites that support tagging. That would be awesome.
Oct 19, 2009
Jochen F. Uebel said...
Hash tags via Posterous: fine. But: Please describe functionalities userfriendly. Simple rule: Always look to your texts with the eyes of a newcomer visiting you the first time.
Quote: »To enable this feature, just edit the "Advanced Settings" of your Twitter autopost site by visiting the autopost page and add "{{hash_tags}}" to your custom footer.«
A userfriendly description would have been:
»Go to > Manage > Autopost to Everywhere > (add a Twitter connection, if not yet done, via "Add a service") > Click "Edit" > Click "Advanced options" (just above the "Save" button) > Add "{{hash_tags}}" to your custom footer.«
Oct 30, 2009
Pat Smith said...
This is a fantastic tip! Thanks!
Nov 05, 2009
nokiamobiletalk said...
it would be cool if it would be reversed, hashtags that are tweeted into posterous would turn into posterous tags, would save a lot of time
Nov 18, 2009
TMLinux said...
Hope posterous could include a bangtag for identi.ca groups and something similar for twitter lists. That would be really great!
Nov 18, 2009
(``-_-´´) BUGabundo said...
TMLinux I have to disagree.
tags and hashtags are meant to categorize posts and µnotices.
Groups are meant to distribute info to ppl with same interests.
posting blogs to groups would be spammy
Dec 02, 2009
xea Baudoin said...
@jfuebel Thank you for caring! your help was efficient and, I really appreciate it!
Dec 15, 2009
Steve Czajka said...
Posterous is a great site. I just started my own at www.steveczajka.posterous.com. I like this #hash_tag feature.

Maybe this could be built for flickr tags, so that when you post an article in posterous it autoposts to flickr and carries the tags with it.

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