Roland Perry wrote:
What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too "unofficial", or "unsupported" or something like that.
Anyone who makes that argument is just showing how little they know about Twitter. It would be like complaining you shouldn't use email because "not everyone has email".
You control where we post.
Just email the right address and we'll do the right thing. Post Everywhere? post@posterous.com as usual Twitter? twitter@posterous.com Flickr? flickr@posterous.com Facebook? facebook@posterous.com Tumblr? tumblr@posterous.com Any other blog? blog@posterous.com Posterous only? posterous@posterous.com Combine them! flickr+twitter@posterous.com
It's this richness which confuses the ordinary person. That's a lot like saying Perl is too complicated for the ordinary person so never use Perl. :-) How are they to know which bit of the scattergun approach is the right one to use? Or whether "posting everywhere" has some hidden disadvantage.
You can configure it and use it however YOU want. If it's too confusing to use it selectively - sometimes posting in all places, sometimes posting in just one place, then configure it for your preferred use and use the regular "post everywhere" method each time you post. For network outage announcements it would work perfectly to post to Twitter and your company blog(s) in one step. Bonus - if it can't reach one system at least the post gets posted on the other system. For this reason your company may want to setup a shadow blog on one of the free blogging platforms, in addition to a blog on the company website. This way if your website is down, the news on the other blog is still out there for those that follow the blog to find/read. The configurable aspects of posterous are most helpful for people who have more diverse posting habits - who want to post news to some (but not all) channels, who sometimes post chatty things they want to go to facebook, sometimes post business things they don't want to go to facebook, who post photos they want to go to flickr and facebook but not their blog, etc. If you are active with social networking it would be perfect. I you just use it as an announcement tool, just use the defaults. jc