Today marks the final day of a nearly 5 year long journey for Posterous.com. The social sharing site was initially created as a blog publishing service, but morphed in to a place to post images and connect with social networks. Posterous demonstrated solid growth over its first few years with easy to use features like post by email. But, grown slowed and the site was purchased by Twitter in the spring of 2012.
Posterous Closing Down: Makes Final Announcement
After the acquisition by Twitter, it was only a matter of time before Posterous closed it doors. The purchase was seen by most as a way for Twitter to “aquihire” the Posterous staff. Posterous released this final announcement via the website:
“Posterous Will Turn Off on April 30
Posterous launched in 2008. Our mission was to make it easier to share photos and connect with your social networks. Since joining Twitter almost one year ago, we’ve been able to continue that journey, building features to help you discover and share what’s happening in the world – on an even larger scale.
On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as of April 30, Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit.
Right now and over the next couple months until May 31, you can download all of your Posterous Spaces including your photos, videos, and documents.
Here are the steps:
Go to http://posterous.com/#backup.
Click to request a backup of your Space by clicking “Request Backup” next to your Space name.
When your backup is ready, you’ll receive an email.
Return to http://posterous.com/#backup to download a .zip file.
If you want to move your site to another service, WordPress and Squarespace offer importers that can move all of your content over to either service. Justmigrate offers a service to move your site to Tumblr.
We’d like to thank the millions of Posterous users who have supported us on our incredible journey. We hope to provide you with as easy a transition as possible, and look forward to seeing you on Twitter. Thank you.
Sachin Agarwal
Founder and CEO”
Posterous Closing Down While Founders Launch Posthaven
Posterous co-founders Garry Tan and Brett Gibson have let go of their original vision for the site. “We were bummed to see something get shuttered that we believed should last forever. We know how to build every aspect of a great site, and we’re setting out to do it again.” That new site is called Posthaven and its list of goals include “durable URLs forever; straightforward, open, sustainable, pro-user business model; and best in class ease of use always.” For Posterous fans that may have a lack of trust and wonder what motivates the move to a new site, the duo has this to say “We want to build simple, useful, usable software for people. That’s what we love to do. We’ll never sell this site. It’s not for sale. Ever. Not negotiable.”
So even though Posterous is closing down, their seems to be a ready made alternative for loyal users.
