Using Posterous for Images and Video in Tweetie 2
January 19, 2010 I want to show you how to use Posterous to handle all of your Twitter media. The biggest benefit is, you can now customize and apply your own branding to Posterous, so why wouldn’t you use it?
Currently, my posterous is only used for twitter media, but it's certainly capable of doing much more.
I read a little information about this on the Posterous site, and scoured the web for information on integrating Posterous within Tweetie 2. Besides the hundreds of successful tweets of people testing, I couldn't find how to do it, so after I figured it out, I thought I would give-back.
Why use Posterous combined with Tweetie 2?
1. If you’re like me, you’re a little tired of all the ugly apps out there that deal with our Twitter videos and images. There’s yfrog, twitpic, tweetphoto, Mobypicture, Twitgoo, and more. There are way too many ugly apps who are making money from their ugly ads.
2. 140+ characters. No more "Twitlonger" garbage. If you like to ramble-on, then at-least take comfort that the reader will land on your own site.
Now, as far as Twitter apps for iPhone, of-course there’s only one: TWEETIE 2.
View the tutorial below. It's cake, so let's do this.
My styled Posterous blog is here: http://alanhouser.posterous.com
You'll want to follow me on Twitter
Reader Comments (5)
The reason I made TwitLonger was precisely because there are times I want to share stuff on Twitter (typically technical stuff) that is transient in nature. Something that doesn't belong on my blog, either because it is specifically for a single person of because the subject isn't something that fits in with what I write about on my blog. For a similar reason, a picture of a funny sign that is a "throwaway" picture I will put up on TwitPic or similar instead of putting it in my Flickr stream. Twitter is a conversation, I don't care about it being archived for posterity and TwitLonger makes it easy to drop stuff into that conversation without making it a permanent part of something more serious.
Does it get overused? Yes. If you want a blog should you use Posterous instead? Yes, absolutely, love Posterous. If you want somewhere to easily dump a bit of a rant intended for Twitter friends and only valid that evening should you use TwitLonger? Yes.
I agree Stuart - there's some content that just doesn't belong on my blog. That's one reason I really miss Pownce -- it was that outlet for me to say WHATEVER I wanted, and in mass amounts.
If you poke-around this site, you'll see that I created The Lighter Side -- to serve exactly that same purpose. It keeps things focused here, and keeps all the distractions over there. ;-)
So now, I'm going to use my posterous blog ONLY for media and overflow content. Maybe I should call it the Media Closet.
Good stuff HOSER. It's Augua ;)
Question,I have two different posterous pages set up. One with my name and the other with a nickname. But when I post with Tweetie2 it goes to my "name" Posterous instead of my "nickname". Is there a way to designate which it posts to?
Thanks Blake. They do have a crazy-special Technical soup in-place over at Posterous.
You may try to log-out of your posterous accounts, then inside posterous, remove/re-add the Twitter integration (making sure the correct Twitter.com account is active/logged-in).
It's probably a cookie issue, or you accepted the Twitter API agreement in another Twitter account (perhaps).
I noticed with Tweetie2 that once you decide-upon the image app to use, it applies to all Tweetie2 accounts.
I brought in a new account to T2, and posted an image. To my suprise, Posterous created a fresh account for the image! Posterous is the only app I've ever seen that sets all that up for you instead of just failing.
I hope you get it figured-out!
(I typed this into my iPhone. It's probably riddled with mistakes!)