The only plugin I would really want for Posterous is one to allows readers to share content they enjoyed. While Posterous does have a built in “retweet” feature, I’m curious why they didn’t offer more share points for bloggers. Either way, I came up with a script that would allow readers to share on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious and Email.

Here’s the instructions:

1.Find advance theme options:  Manage>Settings> Theme and Customize my site> Advanced
*It might ask you to create and a new theme sheet “Clean Sheet (copy)” … hit OK.

2. Locate the body tag: {Body}

3. Right under this tag place this code:

<a title=”Send this page to Twitter!” href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=RT @twitterusername {Title} {Permalink}” target=”_blank”>Tweet This!</a> | <a title=”Send this page to Facebook” href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={Permalink}&t={Title}” target=”_blank”>Share on Facebook</a> | <a class=”DiggThisButton” href=”http://digg.com/submit?url={Permalink}”>Digg</a> |
<a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url={Permalink}&title={Title}”>Del.icio.us</a> | <a href=”mailto:?subject={Title}&body=I thought you might find this article interesting – {Title} | {Permalink}”>Email</a>

* Make Sure you change the “@twitterusername” in the code to whatever your twitter username is.

4. Hit the: “Save, I’m done” button and you should be all good.

This is how the completed code should look:

<p>
{Body}
<a title=”Send this page to Twitter!” href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=RT @”twitterusername” {Title} {Permalink}” target=”_blank”>Tweet This!</a> | <a title=”Send this page to Facebook” href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={Permalink}&t={Title}” target=”_blank”>Share on Facebook</a> | <a class=”DiggThisButton” href=”http://digg.com/submit?url={Permalink}”>Digg</a> |
<a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url={Permalink}&title={Title}”>Del.icio.us</a> | <a href=”mailto:?subject={Title}&body=I thought you might find this article interesting – {Title} | {Permalink}”>Email</a>
</p>

I’m sure you could add more links but these are the only ones I was interested in. Also, if you want image links instead of text link just add the appropriate HTML image code – I just preferred text, flows better.

You can view this code in action on my posterous blog here: Hector’s Posterous

About 2 months ago, I stumbled upon a site called ping.fm. Ping allows you to update most of your social networking sites from one dashboard. They even have the ability to send in updates via text message to a 10 digit number. This meant that I could text message my twitter updates to ping.fm and they would update my twitter. I have been using Ping for about a month and a half now and have no complaints. They update 99.9% of the time immediately or for sure within 2 minutes of sending your update.  Ping however does not send back direct messages (D) or @responses to your cell phone; you have to get on twitter or your twitter app to see your messages. I am fine with that because I was only looking for a way to update my status. This will also work with facebook and myspace status updates. I hope this helps your situation…let me know if it does. =)

*Side Note* This post was transferred from my old blog because many people have found it useful.  I want the content to continue to be out on the web to help people that are having this issue with their phones.