As you may have read yesterday, TwitPic and Posterous are currently in a row after the latter introduced a “Rescue your photos from TwitPic” tool that provides users with a one-click way to import TwitPic photos over to their Posterous blog.
TwitPic isn’t into the idea and reportedly sent the Posterous team a letter last week threatening legal action against the company if they launched it.
Posterous co-founder Sachin Agarwal told us TwitPic’s claims are bogus, and that “Posterous is simply acting as an agent to the user who owns the photos”. TwitPic for its part seems most concerned about Posterous’ methods for accessing data.
But maybe lawyers won’t be necessary, after all. Check out this tweet from Agarwal, sent to TwitPic founder Noah Everett about half an hour ago (via @cdixon):
“Hey @noaheverett: if you’d like to discuss data portability, please email me. sachin@posterous.com. Lawyers are expensive. We can be friends”
Wouldn’t it be swell if an actual lawsuit was diverted thanks to that tweet?
Are you watching this, @HTC, @Nokia and @ceoSteveJobs (yes, I know it’s a fake)?
Posterous emerged from Y Combinator in the summer of 2008 as an innovative company focused on making blogging simple - as simple as sending an email - and now has more than 15 million monthly users. With the launch of Posterous Spaces, the company is bringing its trademark simplicity to help people share smarter with intuitive privacy controls to share selectively across multiple platforms.
TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, through TwitPic’s API, or through the site itself. Also, some Twitter clients have built-in support for TwitPic.
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