Huge news today in the world of micro-blogging/blogging: Twitter is buying Posterous! The details regarding the deal are fairly slim. All we know for now is that for the near-term, Posterous Spaces will remain live and fully functional with any upcoming changes to be well documented in advance. As for personal content on Posterous, both Twitter and Posterous said that clear instructions for backing up and downloading user data/content will be made available on the coming...

Tumblr was already known as a stylish, design-centric micro-blogging service. Over the last few weeks, they’ve also come to be known as rather poor in terms of reliability with the most noteworthy incident last over 24 hours! And now, the simplistic micro-blogging service gets even more simple with the new login page. Looks good to us. Comparison between old and new after the...

Any attempts to use Tumblr this morning will be met with another red light as pictured above. There isn’t any update yet as to why the popular blogging service is down yet again. We’d suspect growing pains are to blame, though. For Tumblr users, this downtime is beginning to leave a bitter taste in their mouths. Not more than a week ago, Tumblr went through a lengthy 24+ hour downtime due to a failed database cluster. Hopefully this latest issue is...

Every once in a while it’s nice to take a breather, sit back, relax and take in the more nerdy, completely useless though interesting facts of life. You’ve probably seen various articles, pictures, and posters comparing various amounts of incredibleness. For tonights super high number of awesomeness, we’re going to look at Twitter. Seeing as how millions of people around the world use Twitter, it’s incredibly easy to assume that the numbers...

Mobile bloggers and CrackBerry aficionados take note, the WordPress BlackBerry app has been updated to version 0.9.0.175 *correction* 0.9.0.157. Besides a new set of numbers, users can now enjoy: Custom field support Ability to write and post excerpts Support for comment replies Gravatar support Open comment list for a specific post Open URL of author in BB browser Added support for French and Italian languages Overall a welcome update for sure. I know the...