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Blogging Platform Posterous To Shut Down April 30

Posted by timothy on from the cloud-rains-on-your-parade dept.

New submitter Mike Allton writes with the announcement from Posterous that the blogging platform will close at the end of April, after being acquired last year by Twitter. "It's been suggested that people should use platforms like Posterous or Google+ for their blog, and I think this is a perfect example of why that's a bad idea. When you use someone else's platform, you don't own your content and you don't have control over the platform. Do you have a Posterous account? What will you do with all your posts and content?"

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  1. this sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    im going to have to post all my spun SEO spam articles on some other free blogging platform now ...

  2. Shrinking Intelect by warewolfsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gone are the days of our lives, now its life in 156 characters or less...

  3. Re:Did you *read* TFA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > we moved away from simple and good looking HTML sites

    <body background=blink.gif><br><br><br><br><img src=under_construction.gif><br><marquee><font color=red><blink><i>TOTALLY</i> agree</blink>. It was <b>much</b> better in GeoCities' times</font></marquee><br><img src=under_construction.gif><br><embed src=rickroll.mid autostart=true autoplay=true hidden=true/></body>

  4. Oh the pun by Quakeulf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Twitter's pre-Posterous acquisitions.