Twitter acquires blog platform Posterous
Twitter has acquired Posterous, a web service that makes it easy to set up personal blogs. According to Twitter, it plans to retain Posterous's employees but will use them to further develop its own services.
The Posterous-According to SDA, the offer will remain in place until further notice, but is apparently not to be continued in the long term. A purchase price was not disclosed on Monday evening (local time). For Twitter, this is the first acquisition without a direct link to its main product, the platform on which users can create messages up to 140 characters long. Posterous has no such restrictions. It is particularly easy to create private and public blogs there, for example by sending photos with an e-mail to the address of your own Posterous blog.
