Tumblr users may have noticed a somewhat annoying little red pin on their Dashboard a few minutes ago. If you click the red pin, it goes away - yay! - but wait - it returns if you leave the dash and come back, or refresh the page. It’s a Pinned post, which is a new way that Tumblr is offering users to highlight their posts to get more exposure.
Well well well, look who is showing signs of improvement for the past two months in a row? Yeah, that’s right - Myspace. I like to keep tabs on my old friend Myspace. For the past year or so it’s been a steady decline into the abyss never to be found again. But wait, back in February Myspace announced that it had generated a million new users.
comScore released their April 2012 Top 50 U.S. Web Properties and social blogging phenom Tumblr finally made it on the list! This is just another sign that Tumblr is growing exponentially. In the report, it shows that Tumblr is ranked number 47 with 23,507,000 million visitors for the month of April.
Anyone that uses Tumblr knows that there is a certain level of porn in your stream. Of course you have the choice to follow these users that post it or not, but sometimes it just happens. Or you could go hard, and check out the Tumblr porn tag search for loads of pornography (NSFW). It’s mostly spam, but again, many legit users post porn to the social blogging site and in a new lawsuit from the Perfect 10 porn company, they aren’t happy about the copyright infringements and are suing Tumblr for a lot of money.
As part of a new initiative on Tumblr which I first mentioned in February, Tumblr has launched a new program called Storyboard. Storyboard is a regular collection of featured Tumblr content found in the community. One of the first posts on Storyboard is about the Tumblr Dashboard, which is very interesting.
If you have your own blog, maybe it’s on Tumblr since the social blogging service is so popular these days, and you want to track your traffic, I highly recommend Google Analytics. It’s a flexible, detailed and a free traffic reporting tool by Google.
At the annual AdAge Digital conference, Tumblr CEO David Karp (pictured inset) said that advertisers will soon be able to buy ad units on the Featured area of the Tumblr Dashboard.
When you talk about blogs and blogging platforms in 2012, you can’t help but also hear about Tumblr. Sites like Blogspot and LiveJournal are becoming non-players when it comes to blogging. Posterous was a threat at one point, but their time has ended as well. So what’s left? Well you have the big one, WordPress, and you also have Tumblr.
Sharing your Tumblr blogs on Facebook just got a whole lot easier thanks to some new Tumblr-to-Facebook integration. In the past, you had to manually share your Tumblr posts directly into Facebook using the status update. That is now a thing of the past, unless you care to continue doing that manually.
I love Tumblr, how customizable it is and being able to do almost anything possible with it. It really makes it the best blogging platform around, and for that I am grateful. Not to mention all the wonderful people on Tumblr, which adds the social experience to it making it even better than one can imagine. There are a few things that I wish Tumblr had, with custom 404 error pages being one of them.
Saying the Internet is huge is an understatement. With social media on the rise and sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Google Plus steadily fueling online connectivity, daily activities such as sending an email or posting a blog are going through the roof.
What a day. I just found out Yahoo! is suing Facebook, and now I see that Twitter just acquired Posterous. Change is good though, so no complaints here, as change typically drives innovation.
Do you ever wonder what goes on in the head of your average blogger? Being a blogger myself, it’s interesting to know how other bloggers think, and I would say this infographic provides a pretty good description of our day to day thoughts. I can certainly say I think about my blog content, what I want to write about, my code, traffic and SEO often. How about you, what do you think about most?
The Knight Foundation which runs it’s annual Knight News Challenge is doing it a little differently this year. This year’s challenge submissions are being held via the social blogging platform Tumblr.
As many know, Tumblr has been growing at a massive rate over the past year. This is a good thing of course. But it can also be bad because it leads to system strain and outages when you don’t have the scalability to account for the huge spike in usage. This is certainly something Tumblr has suffered through, with outages plaguing the site, it seems that Tumblr just hasn’t been able to keep up.
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