In memoriam
Posterous
Born 2008. Died 30 April 2013.
Posterous passed on 30 April 2013, having lived five years as the blog that let you post by email. Born in 2008, it offered a single idea: send an email to post. No dashboard. No login. Just write and send. At its peak it claimed sixty thousand daily logins and fifty-two million pages. Twitter acquired it in March 2012. In February 2013 the shutdown was announced. The team would focus on Twitter. Users had thirty days to migrate. Posthaven, founded by Posterous co-founders, promised to keep blogs forever. On 30 April the servers went dark. He is survived by every platform that learned that publishing ought to be simple, and by the memory of a time when a blog could be an email address.
We're shutting down Posterous. We're going to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter.
Acquired and neglected
Mourned by Those who posted by email, bloggers who loved simplicity, and anyone who remembers when publishing meant sending a message.
Posthaven, which the founders built to replace it; WordPress and Tumblr, which absorbed its users; and the memory of sixty thousand people who logged in daily.