Autopost everywhere

When you post to Posterous, we'll also update all the other social media services you already use. There's no need to post multiple times, we'll do the work for you!

• We'll update your status on sites like Twitter and Facebook.
• Photos will get published to Facebook and Flickr.
• Blog sites like Wordpress and Tumblr will get your entire post.

Whether you post by email, web, or the bookmarklet, we'll update everything in one shot.

You can setup all your Autopost sites at http://posterous.com/autopost

• For most sites, simply provide your username and password.
• For Blogger, you will need your Blog ID. You can find that by following these directions.
• We support both wordpress.com, and self hosted Wordpress sites. If you host your own Wordpress installation, make sure to enable XML-RPC. To do this, log in as admin, go to Settings, then Writing.
• We autopost to all blogs that support the Metaweblog API.

The username in the email address determines where your email gets Autoposted. The username is the part of the email address to the left of the "@" symbol.

Normal posts created by emailing post@posterous.com autopost to all your other sites. You can also specify where you want to post via the email address you send to.

You can email to specific service types on your account. Do you want to update your Twitter but not your Facebook? You can do that.

• Email posterous@posterous.com if you don't want Autopost at all.
• Email a service twitter@posterous.com to Autopost to just that service type.
• Email multiple services twitter+facebook@posterous.com to Autopost to all services listed.

You can use the following service names to email to: twitter, facebook, flickr, picasa, blog, blogger, tumblr, youtube, vimeo, friendfeed, delicious, laconica, identica, livejournal, plurk, shopify.

Do you have multiple sites of the same type? For example, do you have two Twitter accounts but you only want to autopost to one of them? Email #text@posterous.com to send only to sites where the url contains that text.

No matter where you email, we'll always update your Posterous site. Posts on the external sites will have a post.ly url that links to the Posterous post.

Do you want to tie specific sites on your account with specific Autopost sites? You can't do that yet, but you can control it using the email address you post to. The username and domain you email to post are independent.

Do you want contributor posts to go to your autopost sites? Right now Autopost is based on the user posting, not the site. When you post to your site, we update your other sites. When someone else contributes to your site, we update their autopost sites. We'll be adding site based autopost soon.

We do not autopost private posts, or posts created on private sites.