how to import Tumblr into Posterous
Since I started tracking this Posterous blog using Google Analytics, I occasionally see search terms that are obvious questions and thought it might be, err, fun to answer them. This way, people might actually find what they are looking for.
One recent example is: 'import tumblr feed to posterous'
As I was also curious and have a small (but perfectly formed) Tumblr, I thought I'd try it out. You simply navigate to the Posterous 'Import' page, select 'Tumblr' as the blog to be imported and enter your Tumblelog and your Tumblr credentials.
Posterous then goes away and performs the import in the background (which is sensible) and after 5 minutes (in my case) reports back
This blog was successfully imported.You can now individually move posts to your existing Posterous sites, or merge this entire site with another.• 51 posts were successfully imported• 0 posts failed to import
Posterous then invites you to 'Merge' the imported content although I couldn't see any chance to preview the imported posts to check the various media types.
That site is now being merged in. This might take a few minutes.
All my content (mainly text, quotes, images and the odd YouTube video) was imported seamlessly into Posterous. Dates were preserved (couldn't check timestamps) although, unfortunately, tags from existing Tumblr content were not migrated.
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