Posterous as a Twitter Client

Related to my questions from last week, between Posterous vs Tumblr, Lifehack.org has shared an interested idea for the micro-blogging site Posterous.

(BTW – Mashable picked Tumblr over Posterous but a survey of their readers showed a preference of Tumblr over Posterous)

One of the more useful aspects of Twitter is the ability to quickly broadcast images, videos, and other media to your followers, making it an effective “mo-blogging” (mobile blogging) platform. Twitter doesn’t have this ability built in, though; sending pictures or video clips to Twitter requires using third-party services like TwitPic. Most Twitter clients will automatically upload images to these third-party hosts and add a link to your tweets, making the whole experience rather seamless…

Enter Posterous. Posterous is a lifestreaming service that sits somewhere between Twitter and a blog in terms of features. It’s not really intended for essay-like blogging, but rather for capturing images, video, web links, and thoughts quickly and easily. What’s important here is that you can post via email
or even SMS message, and it can be set up to automatically forward anything you post to Twitter, Facebook, and a number of other services (including your own blog). Using Posterous, I can create a permanent record of the images, videos, audio clips, and other material I post to Twitter, and I can do so in a customizable, brandable space that offers me far more control over my content than I have with services like TwitPic or even Twitter.

Lifehack.org has a full rundown on the idea and quick instructions on how to set this up.

I haven’t played around with Tumblr to know if this idea would work on their site as well, but from what I’ve read, I would assume it would work this way as well.

I think Mark Horvath (@hardlynormal @invisiblepeople) is using Posterous in this way. Anyone else?

Thomas is using Tumblr similar to how I’m using Posterous right now — as kind of a sharing site/mind dump.

As for my own Posterous site, there’s not much to it right now, I’m currently just sharing random things I find either while surfing the web or via Twitter. Perhaps I’ll adopt some of these other ideas in the future…