Why would Posterous sell to MySpace? They're hemorrhaging money, employees, and users, while Posterous is growing quite well. Selling to MySpace seems like it'd be a terrible idea..

Yeah Posterous might be growing, but they're still the also-ran of the social networks. Taking on the mantle of the former world leader would put them on a new level

Like when Dick Grayson became Batman for awhile. sorta

Posterous is more of a blog host than a social network. They don't need to be the most popular to be successful.

There's no real analysis here.

This is the equivalent of me saying "RIM should buy Apple. They have this cool new iPhone. I really like it. They should buy it."

Maybe, but that's not really how it works.

MySpace is pivoting, from a social network to a music platform for Indie artists. That's where MySpace is going. It isn't (and hasn't) tried to compete with Facebook for years (and I thought the MySpace/Facebook comparisons diesd a while back).

Adding Posterous and/or any microblogging to Myspace's current platform adds no strategic advantage to MySpaces' current service as it stands.

That said, Posterous is pretty awesome. I just don't see how it would be a useful addition to Myspace in anyway.

good answer. the music pivot is cool, but i think that ship has sailed

uh, but Posterous has a higher valuation than MySpace... wish they would work on site performance though...