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		HardyLeung on March 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Posterous acquired by Twitter Perhaps Twitter wants to own all things micro-blogging (that's the term Twitter's Chinese competitor uses), whatever that means.

sbierwagen on March 12, 2012 | [–]

Posterous isn't really micro-blogging. It's regular blogging. Macro-blogging.

jemfinch on March 12, 2012 | | [–]

Until Steve Yegge's using the platform, it doesn't qualify for the term "macro-blogging".

rhizome on March 12, 2012 | [–]

To be sure, Twitter's non-tweet features need a lot of improvement.

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