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How do you use Posterous or Tumblr? Here’s how I do.

Published on July 5, 2010 in blogging, mobile and social media. View Comments

Posterous

Today came the news that Posterous has grown by over 700 percent during the past year. As TechCrunch points out, Tumblr has been around for longer and is seeing around 23 million unique visitors a month, and Posterous (launched in June, 2008) is now seeing around 5.3 million a month.

The increased growth in Posterous over the past year seems to be in no small part due to its introduction of an iPhone app that allows you to post photos and thoughts. Even without the app, it’s easy enough to email content in from a mobile device, which is my preferred method if I’m mobile. It’s also easy to cross-post to other services such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and many others, even WordPress.

So, if you use either Tumblr or Posterous, how do you use them? I’ve found myself using Posterous on a increasingly regular basis lately. I’ve tried both these services over the years. Although I think it’s good, I gave up on my Tumblr account because I couldn’t really think of a decent use for it. I found that I already had more than enough to be going on with. I guess it just wasn’t the right time for me.

Having said that, later when I found out about Posterous and tried it, I found the fact that you can send images via email from a mobile device very handy. In addition to using it for posting various images and videos from my iPhone, I’ve also found myself using it for increasingly regular posts on various subjects I’m interested in that don’t fit the theme of this blog.

It’s really a way for me to discover and comment on additional themes and subjects I’m interested in, and to share them with others. Maybe some of these thoughts will turn into other more substantial projects later on, maybe not, but for now it seems an appropriate place to experiment. Also, sometimes the 140 character limit of Twitter is just not enough.

How about you? Do you use either Tumblr of Posterous, and in what way? Feel free to share your URL in comments.

Facebook blocks Twitter follower finder. Let’s hope it’s unintentional.

Published on June 24, 2010 in Facebook, Twitter, business, social media and technology. View Comments

Facebook Twitter appSo it appears that Facebook is now blocking a new feature of Twitter’s Facebook app. The particular feature lets you find who out of your Facebook friends also has a Twitter account.

As you can see above, I got the message, “It appears that the connection between Facebook and Twitter isn’t working, we are working with Facebook to resolve this problem.”

TechCrunch is now reporting that the move may be unintentional, and that Twitter said “Facebook has notified us that they have blocked the update to our application, and we are working on a resolution with them.”

Well I certainly hope this block is unintentional. After all the criticism over Facebook’s lack of openness and constant erosion of trust, blocking a feature like this from one of its major competitors would be a really bad move, don’t you think?

As has been suggested, it might have been blocked automatically because it was getting too much traffic all at once and they had to pull the plug. That would make sense, considering the very impressive ongoing growth of Twitter.

Real-Time Digg On The Way?

Published on April 23, 2009 in technology and video. View Comments

This is a half hour TechCrunch interview with Kevin Rose, founder of Digg. Rose runs through the four year history of Digg, which sounds like it has been a fun ride to have been on. He mentions that Digg now gets 35 million uniques a month, that’s some serious traffic right there.

Rose also hints at some of what he says are major changes on the way for Digg. He hints at some real-time features, saying “I believe that it’s time for Digg to get a little bit more real-time in nature”. This is interesting considering Friendfeed has just released a new real-time beta, as I wrote about a couple of posts ago. Real-time seems to be where things are heading.