Posts tagged: tumblr
Bloggers of Tumblr
- The amazing graphics blogger who talks mostly about their inability to fit in but ironically has thousands of Tumblr friends.
- The scene blogger who posts thousands of photos of herself but makes it repeatedly known that she has no self confidence.
- The spastic blogger who purposely designs their page in a jumble of seizure-inducing images and ONLY reblogs funny memes.
- The angry political blogger who gets thousands of pissy questions a day, which doesn’t do anything but make them more angry.
- The “fuckyeah” blogger who only posts shit pertaining to whatever they’re obsessed with and are always perpetually nice—even to jackoff anons.
- The newbie blogger who has no idea what they’re doing and wonders why they never get any questions even though they haven’t turned their ask box on after weeks of use.
- The anonymous troll-ish blogger who exists to piss you off because their life sucks balls.
- The indie blogger who loves to lurk Flickr and has “Share on Tumblr” bookmarked in order to post low contrast and grainy photos of shells and people’s dirty converse.
- The “kawaii” blogger who loves anime, Sailor Moon, and anything that looks remotely Japanese.
- The stoner blogger who love gangster culture and always seem to be pretty laid back about everything.
- The Harry Potter blogger. Enough said.
- The random scatter of individual bloggers who have miraculously made it so far in life no thanks to natural selection. They’re known for making assumptions about everything you say and failed first grade vocabulary.
- The “activist” blogger who loves to talk about inequality and, well, nothing else. Except maybe Libya.
- Me
About once a week some 16-year-old girl emails me to tell me I have a boring blog for someone who works at Tumblr.
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Tumblweeds Proves Tumblr Is for Tweens - A Curmudgeon's Guide
/—/ When I started using the streamlined, socially-oriented blogging platform, its user base was made up of creatives, tastemakers and media personalities. A wonderful place to meet and share stuff with cool people. But is it still a buzzing hive of creativity?
Enter Tumblweeds, an opt-in service that ranks Tumblr users by follower count. The site’s data is not complete — it only ranks sites that have been submitted manually by individual Tumblr users. But by looking at the top 10 self-submitted Tumblr sites, we see that twee photographs and emo platitudes rule the community. In other words, Tumblr is now MySpace.
I am at a party Saturday night when a woman asks me what I do and before I can respond someone else informs her - “Well, he used to be at The New York Times but he left and now he is at Tumblr.” The woman’s face lights up with excitement and she says ‘Wow! That is amazing - I am a trapeze artist. Where do you tumble?” Me: ”Huh? What! Oh no ‘TUMBLR’ like ‘TUMBLR DOT COM’” Then I quietly went back to the corner and sat by myself and computed Huffman encoding of the beer label. Honestly, I was flattered that she thought, based on my physical appearance, that I had any ability to be a tumbler.
i gotta talk to @davidkarp about this. if i’m reading this correctly, it looks like Tumblr is *growing* by 200M page views per week.
Ah, yes – an incredible opportunity and challenge!
The really impressive piece is that our engineers have been keeping up with this surge in traffic while serving fewer and fewer errors every week. It’s been a rough couple of months, but we’re almost there.
…sike!
![Giant blogging platform Tumblr has decided to adopt cartoonist Matthew “The Oatmeal” Inman’s suggestion for a “fail whale” down-time graphic, the artist said in a Twitter message this afternoon. Inman posted the image of TumblBeasts taking over the servers this afternoon and said “please oh please use it” to Tumblr. Four hours later, Inman said he’d received an email from Tumblr’s founder agreeing to use the image. You can see the end result [above] or live at this link.
Tumblr is a fast-growing publishing platform (last month we reported it has now raised more money and sees more hosted pageviews each month than WordPress) but it has struggled with occasional down-time, as such platforms often do. Its urban hipster image sometimes leads to mockery of its upset users when they complain of downtime, but we argued in support of those emotions in a December post titled Why a Day of Tumblr Downtime Matters to the Entire Web & World.
» Tumblr Adopts The Oatmeal’s Suggested Fail Whale Page](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfk2gzVlc41qzv5zlo1_500.jpg "Giant blogging platform Tumblr has decided to adopt cartoonist Matthew “The Oatmeal” Inman’s suggestion for a “fail whale” down-time graphic, the artist said in a Twitter message this afternoon. Inman posted the image of TumblBeasts taking over the servers this afternoon and said “please oh please use it” to Tumblr. Four hours later, Inman said he’d received an email from Tumblr’s founder agreeing to use the image. You can see the end result [above] or live at this link.
Tumblr is a fast-growing publishing platform (last month we reported it has now raised more money and sees more hosted pageviews each month than WordPress) but it has struggled with occasional down-time, as such platforms often do. Its urban hipster image sometimes leads to mockery of its upset users when they complain of downtime, but we argued in support of those emotions in a December post titled Why a Day of Tumblr Downtime Matters to the Entire Web & World.
» Tumblr Adopts The Oatmeal’s Suggested Fail Whale Page")
Giant blogging platform Tumblr has decided to adopt cartoonist Matthew “The Oatmeal” Inman’s suggestion for a “fail whale” down-time graphic, the artist said in a Twitter message this afternoon. Inman posted the image of TumblBeasts taking over the servers this afternoon and said “please oh please use it” to Tumblr. Four hours later, Inman said he’d received an email from Tumblr’s founder agreeing to use the image. You can see the end result [above] or live at this link.
Tumblr is a fast-growing publishing platform (last month we reported it has now raised more money and sees more hosted pageviews each month than WordPress) but it has struggled with occasional down-time, as such platforms often do. Its urban hipster image sometimes leads to mockery of its upset users when they complain of downtime, but we argued in support of those emotions in a December post titled Why a Day of Tumblr Downtime Matters to the Entire Web & World.
This is great.
WE’D BE SO FIT, OH MY GOD.
I’M GOING TO START DOING THIS!
Oh god.
ohmygod. better than a goddamn gym.
o/
what’s the difference between tumblr and a restaurant?
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A restaurant has servers that work.
DAYUM
Somebody get some ice for that burn
Relevant
LOL
