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Posterous to shut down on April 30

February 18th, 2013 Comments Off

Posterous to shut down on April 30

Blogging platform Posterous which was acquired by Twitter almost a year back, has announced in a blog post that they will be shutting down their services on April 30th. This move is to allow them to focus 100% on their efforts with Twitter.

This means after April 30th, users will no longer be able to access Posterous Spaces to view or edit their posts. Posterous has advised users to take a backup of their blogs by going to http://posterous.com/#backup. Here, users can request a backup of their Spaces by clicking on “Request Backup” next to their name. Users will be notified whenever their backup is ready, they can then proceed to download the zip file from the same link. WordPress and Squarespace users can avail of the importers to move all content from Posterous to the respective sites. Users will no longer be able to backup via any of the above methods after April 30th.

Posterous initally launched in May 2008 as a blogging platform and quickly became popular due to its ability to auto post to various other social platforms and the ability to post to your blog via e-mail. It was finally acquired by Twitter in March 2012. Are you a Posterous user? To which other service are you considering moving your blog to? Let us know in the comments below.

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Facebook now allows you to promote friends posts

February 15th, 2013 Comments Off

Facebook now allows you to promote friends posts

Facebook had introduced the ability to promote your own posts last year. Now they are taking it one step further by allowing you to pay and promote your friends posts as well.

Situations under which this new feature can be put to use can be hypothesized as follows: Your friend is moving out and has a yard sale, you can promote this post so that more people will visit this sale. Or one of your friends might have rescued an animal and is looking for its owner or anyone to adopt it. You could pay Facebook to promote this post to make it appear higher in your friends’s new feeds. It has been reported that this feature will be restricted to users with less than 5000 friends or followers. Do note, that there is no foolproof method yet to evaluate how aggressively your post is promoted.

While you will not need permission from your friend whose post you are promoting, keeping in mind privacy concerns, this post will only be visible to those who it was originally shared with. What do you think of this new feature by Facebook? Do you think it will legitimately be useful or is it just another way to burn a hole in your pocket. Voice your opinions in the comments below.

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