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10 reasons why Posterous is better than Tumblr
I am a late adopter when it comes to light-blogging service Posterous, purely because I’ve been a Tumblr user for quite a while.
After reading that Posterous has finally decided to introduce customizable themes, I decided to give the service a go.
If you still unsure as to which light-blogging service is for you, you’ll hopefully find this blog post helpful. Here are 10 reasons why I think Posterous is better than Tumblr:
1) You can easily import your Tumblr posts on your shiny new Posterous so you won’t lose any of your content
2) You can configure Posterous to automatically ping multiple services when updating your Posterous (Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook etc)
3) Posterous automatically uploads your new posts onto your old Tumblr, a win-win option as you can always go back to your old Tumblr should you wish to
4) You can monitor how many times a post has been viewed in your side-bar widget, and how many people have favourited that post
5) You can also easily install Google Analytics and Feedburner onto your Posterous, something which I couldn’t do with my previous Tumblelog
6) Your tags are visible in your Posterous’ side bar, making your content easily searchable (again I couldn’t do that with my old Tumblr)
7) Once you’ve tagged your posts, Posterous will automatically recommend other users you should follow – blogging is all about forging online relationships, right?
8 ) You can click on a user’s avatar to find out more about them – again I found Tumblr a little anonymous
9) The bookmarklet is dead-easy to install and use
10) Posterous are listening to their community and fast introducing new features
Are you sold yet? Do you prefer Tumblr or Posterous? Let me know in the comments
Click here to follow me on Posterous
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about 10 months ago
At last! I've been using Tumblr for a while, but noticed that more and more people prefer Posterous. Tumblr is still great for quick, casual posts, but lacks the fucntionality some seasoned bloggers got used to and demand nowadays even from microblogging tools like Tumblr. So are you moving to Posterous now?
about 10 months ago
I'll be moving to Posterous until further notice. The great thing about it, it that you can add the Tumblr service when you sign up which automatically pings your old Tumblr so the content on both blogs is always sunchronised.
It's a pretty clever way of getting Tumblr users to trial Posterous
about 10 months ago
“5) You can also easily install Google Analytics and Feedburner onto your Posterous, something which I couldn’t do with my previous Tumblelog”
I use Google Analytics with my current Tumblr and have had no problems with it. Anytime I change my tumblr theme I just re-copy the code into the theme.
“6) Your tags are visible in your Posterous’ side bar, making your content easily searchable (again I couldn’t do that with my old Tumblr) “
Your tags can be viewable in Tumblr it just depends on which Tumblr theme you use.
I've fallen in love with the small community of followers and the people I follow at Tumbr so I don't see myself switching but I do like the fact that Posterous automatically posts your old tumblogs onto it's site and will re-post Posterous posts onto Tumblr. I might poke around with Posterous and see what it's about but I doubt I'll leave Tumblr, haha.
about 10 months ago
You're lucky because none of these worked with my template… but again I picked the really funky one!
The other important factor for me as well is that a lot of bloggers I follow who also blog on WordPress/Blogger are also on on Posterous.
Posterous all the way for me I am afraid
about 10 months ago
No need to be afraid of that, haha.
I see that they just came out with themes over there. That's a reason for me to check it out 'cause I was not feeling the lack of customization before.
about 10 months ago
I have Tumblerd and not Posteroused, but have now changed to Clogging, or clipmarkblogging…check my blog:-)
about 9 months ago
Wonderful find!
Thanks a lot!
Have now imported a Tumblr account into a posterous account and hoping I can find a way to export same into a self hosted WordPress Blog (http://www.chairblog.eu) see the page http://www.chairblog.eu/chair-blog-tumblr/
about 8 months ago
I have to say I was quite disappointed with my experience using Tumblr; it looks great, but for someone new to blogging I found it incredibly frustrating to use, or even find any blogs to follow! The most popular users all seem to post photos and nothing else. I'm now using wordpress and it has been a joy to use so far.
Still not sure where I stand on 'light blogging', but posterous actually looks pretty good from having a quick glance at your profile – that's the sort of thing I had in mind when I joined Tumblr. Maybe I'll transfer it over.
about 7 months ago
I'm using Posterous to post to Tumblr, so people can connect with me on whichever platform they prefer.
about 7 months ago
I'm using Posterous to post to Tumblr, so people can connect with me on whichever platform they prefer.
about 2 months ago
Exactly my opinions too one why posterous is way better. Great review.