Twitter Eats Posterous

Posterous Blog: “Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption. Weâ€ ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service. For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service, weâ€ ll share clear instructions for doing so in the coming weeks.”

Twitter Blog: “Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption. Weâ€ ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service. For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service, weâ€ ll share clear instructions for doing so in the coming weeks.”

What to make of this? Twitter bought development talent, not a web logging platform. My guess is they’ll mothball Posterous. Look at the language in the two posts above. Words like “We’ll give you notice” and “For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service” don’t give me much faith in the continued operation of Posterous as a platform.

I could be wrong? Maybe Twitter will move their weblogs to Posterous and continue building the service as a competitor to Tumblr, maybe the service will be shuttered?