If your like me and been a user of the great blogging platform posterous you won’t be happy about the news that they have just been purchased by twitter as a ‘talent acquistion’

Have a read of their announcement it doesnt fill you with much hope about the future of posterous.

Twitter has recently acquired the very popular tweetdeck and is pretty much killing it off. Yahoo did similar things when they purchased the hugely popular delicious and flickr just watched them both die due to their neglect.

From the acquistion announcement:

Posterous engineers, product managers and others will join our teams working on several key initiatives that will make Twitter even better

OK, so all the great posterous devs will now be working on twitter stuff. Basically posterous is now in maintenance mode.

We’ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service

Great. That’s a nice way of saying when twitter is sick of maintaining posterous they’ll shut it down you’ll give me an email

For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service

Thats me - I don’t intend to keep my blog and websites on a dying platform. Octopress is one awesome blog platform and p.ostero.us will bring this awesomeness to the posterous exodus.

If your a posterous user and you want to join the exodus sign up, its $9 per year

Read more at our p.ostero.us powered blog http://p.ostero.us/blog