Recently a friend of mine asked me Whether he should choose Tumblr or Posterous for personal blogging. Since I have been using both of these micro-blogging platform for quite sometime now. I don’t know why do people compare Posterous with Tumblr when both of these are totally .. Yes totally different services in my opinion. It’s like comparing a Desktop computer with a Television.
Tumblr has become a very popular blogging platform and has got hundreds and thousands of users. It allows you to post any kind of post like Text Post, Video Post, Audio Post etc. It’s an ideal platform for personal blogging. However Posterous on the other hand, in my opinion is built for Mobile Personal Blogging.
You even don’t need to have an account to start your blog with Posterous, Just send an email to their Email address and your blog would be up. However If you want to regularly post on your Blog then I would suggest to create an account for yourself and it’s Free too.
Posterous in my opinion is the easiest solution for blogging on the go, you just saw a great scene, Capture it with your Mobile Cam and send it via Email to your Posterous blog and let the World see it. And What I like most about Posterous that you can auto post to different online services including Tumblr.
For instance I have set auto posting for Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, and Tumblr, Whenever I post a picture to my posterous blog it’s automatically posted to my Facebook Account, Flickr and Tumblr too. So you see, you can keep all the communities happy at the same time with a single service ‘Posterous’ without needing to post your Photo manually to all of those services.
However that does not mean you should not create an account with Tumblr when you have posterous. Tumblr as i said is for posting any kind of stuff you like. It supports various kind of posts. It’s the micro-blogging in its best form. However I find Posterous more convenient to share something on the go. Like I mentioned above, Just capture an image on your Mobile and post it to all of the popular Online Social Networking sites with a single Email to Posterous. In short both of these are two different kind of services, both having their own value and advantages.
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I use posterous and have not used tumblr because i’m so satisfied with posterous.
My question is, does either have an xml sitemap which you can submit to google webmaster tools?
Well, so far I didn’t see any option for generating xml sitemap for both of these services.
Hi — I’ve just started trying out tumblr and posterous, and so far I find that if I’m posting from my pc, I like using tumblr. Do you know if there’s a way to set up autoposting from tumblr to posterous (I know it can be done from posterous to tumblr, but I’d like to try it the other way round…)?
You can copy your RSS feed url and Webmaster tools uses it as a sitemap. Anyhow it only contains the last 20 posts. I haven’t seen an option to put in and or a real sitemap or either a robot.txt file with a link to some.
It is still really difficult to know which one of these super-simple platforms to use. I have discussed it on my posterous. http://post.ly/TNhH