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by Nux 4851 days ago
I've never visited posterous.com until today, but I fail to see why Twitter would buy it and kill it.. can't be that horrific. It's like buying a house and setting it on fire. What am I missing? Are they just killing off competition?
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sp332 4851 days ago
They probably bought it for the people. So there would be no one left to work on the Posterous site if everyone is working on Twitter instead. I know they didn't buy it for the infrastructure since it's hosted on Rackspace and Twitter is an AWS shop.

https://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous

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Nux 4850 days ago
But it all seems very volatile as people tend not to stay in one place for too long. Oh well ...
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ersii 4851 days ago
In my opinion, this is a staff acquisition. Buy a company to get the staff free and on board, ditch the product/project.

Besides, I think Posterous would be a good complement to 140 char-twitter. I don't even consider them as competition to each other..

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