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Twitter has agreed to acquire blogging platform Posterous.
Offering services for both businesses and Joe Blogger, Posterous has long fought for a place at the blogging platform table -- battling with giants such as WordPress, Google's Blogger, TypePad, and Tumblr -- and judging from Twitter's announcement of the deal, that fight is now over.
Apparently, Twitter has acquired Posterous solely for its talent.
In a blog post, the company said it will soon provide "clear instructions" for users who want to back up their content or move from Posterous to another blogging service. And then it put the spotlight on the 36 employees at Posterous. "Posterous engineers, product managers and others will join our teams working on several key initiatives that will make Twitter even better," read the blog post from Twitter. "We’re always looking for talented people who have the passion and personality to join Twitter."
In late November, Twitter bought Whisper Systems, founded by internet security guru Moxie Marlinspike, and this too was acquiring talent. Whisper's staff also included well-known roboticist Stuart Anderson.
Sachin Argawal, Posterous' CEO and founder, spent six years at Apple building the video-editing software Final Cut. Chief product officer Brian Frank has held product management positions at giants such as Adobe, Intel and Palm. Vice president of engineering Adil Ajmal has directed software development at outfits like Intuit and United Online.
Twitter did say that Posterous would remain up and running without interruption. However, hosting outfit eNom will now manage custom Posterous domains.
Neither Posterous nor Twitter could immediately be reached for comment.
