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A random survey of aorund 10 of my newest followers, and 8 out 10 had ‘Untitled’ as their blog name, and 6 had no posts yet.
Looks like a large migration onto Tumblr is taking place.
Question: Where are you new tumblrers coming from? Are you leaving Facebook, or just adding Tumblr into the mix?
Sorry for any inconvenience, but we no longer support pinned and highlighted posts.
bitshare published this response from Tumblr, after he contacted the company when noticing that he hadn’t seen any pinned posts since the new Tumblr UI went live.
I’ve gotten tired of logging in and out of Tumblr to switch from underpaidgenius.com to stoweboyd.com. So, I thought I’d try Tumblita, a Mac app that lives in the menubar, for 99 cents.
Does support everything: for example, I can’t style the text or upload an image in a text post. And it only works for creating new posts, not editing existing ones. But for quick uploading of quotations or pictures, it should help.
Gary Tan surveyed a bunch of teenagers about social network use, and manages to spend the whole article talking about Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, even when Tumblr caputures the largest use across the board:
I surveyed 1,038 people in two groups — those aged 13-18 (546 responses) and 19-25 (492 responses) and asked which services they used regularly (defined by several hours per week or more, multiple answers OK).
I find the growing adoption of Tumblr over Facebook and Twitter a really fascinating development. Since Tan didn’t ask much about what the kids are actually doing on these services we don’t know if Tumblr use is for ‘photos only’ and principally for hipster middle schoolers passing along other’s posts as Josh Miller’s teenage sister said recently.
Another proof in the works that Facebook is the new AOL. You’ll start hearing the stories about why Facebook should start buying media companies or a TV network, next.
Source: blog.garrytan.com
It’s been a great year on Tumblr. I’ve been writing a lot less here because of my new curator role at GigaOM Pro, but I bet I will get used to that in a few more weeks and you’ll see more spillage over here again. In particular, I am planning to get back into the groove on the book project — Beyond Social: Imagining The Postnormal Business — and I will be writing the first draft of sections here, and inviting comments. You can sign up for the book’s newsletter, here, if you’d like.
I was amazed to see this morning that I’ve amassed more than 45,000 followers here. Wow.
I made a IFTTT rule today to make a text backup of my posts here into a Dropbox folder. Tumblr doesn’t support any mechanism for this.
At some point in the future IFTTT or someone else might support importing such text files, if I ever needed to move off (gasp) Tumblr. Although if Tumblr got involved in an Instagram-like mess, I bet specialized tools would pop up to migrate.
I’m already backing up Instagram posts (moot, now that I’ve switched to Flickr), and Buffer traffic.
[Update: 3:29pm - Recipe never triggers. I have a support email in to IFTTT.]
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![I made a IFTTT rule today to make a text backup of my posts here into a Dropbox folder. Tumblr doesn’t support any mechanism for this.
At some point in the future IFTTT or someone else might support importing such text files, if I ever needed to move off (gasp) Tumblr. Although if Tumblr got involved in an Instagram-like mess, I bet specialized tools would pop up to migrate.
I’m already backing up Instagram posts (moot, now that I’ve switched to Flickr), and Buffer traffic.
[Update: 3:29pm - Recipe never triggers. I have a support email in to IFTTT.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a2145f983f5db0fb03f1123dbfb5b856/tumblr_mfpgeyGriB1qcz5rmo1_r1_500.png)
