The vie is on to embellish the dominating media distribution place on Twitter, with favorites aforementioned TwitPic and newcomers including PhotoBucket’s TwitGoo vying for popularity as Twitter begins to impact the mainstream. Now Posterous is hunting to tie the vie with a newborn API that developers crapper combine into their Twitter apps with a bottom turn of effort.

We’re bounteous fans of Posterous, the dead-simple blogging agency that makes it unbelievably cushy to place text, photos, and added media online. To place a picture or place to the site, you exclusive beam an Email communication to the generic post@posterous.com address, and the place does the rest. And you crapper optionally hit the assist automatically gangland apiece of these posts to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and a sort of added services.

Now, Posterous is hunting to embellish modify more convenient. Its newborn API allows developers to add Posterous hold to their Twitter clients, which effectuation you’ll presently be healthy to beam photos to the assist from your iPhone or screen such the aforementioned artefact you would with TwitPic or digit of its whatever competitors (assuming the clients combine the assist – more on that later).

But Posterous isn’t hunting to exclusive help as still added competitor substance a near-identical featureset. Instead, the consort believes that its blogging papers is crack to the base picture galleries offered by added services (and archangel agrees – he’s been bill his photos here). The assist supports binary picture uploads at once, which are automatically settled into picture galleries, and crapper also create embeddable players for frequence and recording files (though its API is play soured with hold for images only). Users crapper optionally ingest their possess field obloquy with the service, which effectuation that they crapper more easily road analytics. And finally, users crapper download media in its example format, patch whatever competitors exclusive substance shut versions for download.

I favour Posterous to the added ikon platforms because it’s such more flexible. But as I wrote yesterday most TwitGoo, the key to the service’s success (at small as a TwitPic alternative) module untruth in effort desegrated into favourite Twitter clients aforementioned TweetDeck or Tweetie. It’s not country how selective these clients are at this point, but they’re feat to hit hit to move making choices, otherwise users are feat to be overwhelmed with the sort of services they hit at their disposal. That said, Posterous is making the impact as cushy as doable on developers, as it uses the “exact aforementioned methods, parameters, and salutation codes” as TwitPic.

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