According to their stats page, they have 135 million monthly active users: https://www.tumblr.com/press , about a third of what either Reddit or Twitter claims.
I'm also willing to bet that they have a measurably lower proportion of bots than most other social networks, if only because the perception that Tumblr is irrelevant makes them less attractive as a target.
Anecdata: I have few followers, directly post maybe once every couple of months if that, reblog a few posts a week, and I have no problem with bot spam posts - can't say that I even remember seeing one.
Bot spam followers on the other hand, yeah, a couple a week, but since I don't follow or interact with them, there's no issue.
There are bots, but at least for those who (like me) don't have a lot of "real" followers, they're pretty easy to catch, report, and block when they first follow you. (Having never had large numbers of followers, I can't speak for the experience there.)
I think it's relevant to specific social circles. If you're a huge fan of some media, any media, tumblr is probably a solid bet of engaging with fellow fans in ways reddit isn't as good at.
I have noticed some people sharing their porn and erotica on Tumblr again, but I thought they were just playing cat and mouse with the content filter
I really missed that Verizon got rid of it and its now in saner hands.
This checkmark parody is hilarious and apparently Verizon didn't delete my erotica feed, just hid it and now I can appeal all of those decisions to restore them! wow
I don't know if it's still relevant, but it's the only social media app I still check every day. I only lurk now, I followed some people years and years ago, and they still come up with amusement daily.
Adverts aren't too overloaded (Although I'm clearly not in their demographic anymore, as an older gent, I exclusively get adverts for blue pills, I don't think they have much of a pool targeting me), it still posts new posts from people I follow chronologically.
Tumblr is never going to be The Next <insert many-billion dollar social network here>, but it does have a road to profitability and long-term sustainability now that it's being run by people who at least vaguely understand and respect its userbase.
It's not a world-enveloping thing like the major social media platforms (and it's not going to be) but it has a good number of active users and I enjoy it more than the alternatives.
While I'm sure people did pay for it to be in on the joke, this
> The app additionally saw a flood of new installs after Twitter’s acquisition, which may have contributed to higher consumer spending.
seems like an equally likely cause for revenue increase. Tumblr's parody verification feature launched right as the site's name was being thrown around for the first time in a while as a possible place for users to move to, should Twitter go belly up.
It's cumulative, every time you buy you get two checkmarks, and the more you buy (or get gifted) the more you get.
You get a lot of checkmarks next to your username.
I don't like the ambiguity whether "increased 125%" represents that their revenue has increased 25%, or whether their revenue is now 225% compared to previously. After skimming through the article, I still have no definitive idea. It is probably the former, since they mention
> given the slight bump in revenue
This manner of presenting multiples I've noticed most prominently in Apple marketing copy, and is terribly abhorrent, in my opinion, due to its ambiguity (notice the relative clarity when I say "their revenue has increased 25%"). The article also uses the latter sense when they say
> Sensor Tower says the in-app purchase revenue on iOS is up 19%
if you click the arrow to look more, it elaborates
> For those bright, sunshiny days, the Super Retina XDR display now reaches a peak of 2000 nits outdoors — that’s twice as bright as before
whereas "up to 2x brighter" ought to mean (according to you, and my wishes) thrice as bright. If you look through the rest of the marketing copy, Apple consistently uses such language.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 112 ms ] threadI'm also willing to bet that they have a measurably lower proportion of bots than most other social networks, if only because the perception that Tumblr is irrelevant makes them less attractive as a target.
Bot spam followers on the other hand, yeah, a couple a week, but since I don't follow or interact with them, there's no issue.
They usually seem to unfollow after a week or two though, especially after I block them.
From what I can tell, tumblr users think 'no.'
(I am inclined to agree)
I have noticed some people sharing their porn and erotica on Tumblr again, but I thought they were just playing cat and mouse with the content filter
I really missed that Verizon got rid of it and its now in saner hands.
This checkmark parody is hilarious and apparently Verizon didn't delete my erotica feed, just hid it and now I can appeal all of those decisions to restore them! wow
I can proudly report that all my post appeals were accepted with the simple appeal of "reverse verdict from the verizon dark days"
and they accepted all of those and added a "community label" of Mature
they are by default hidden on iOS app but can be shown with a tap
Adverts aren't too overloaded (Although I'm clearly not in their demographic anymore, as an older gent, I exclusively get adverts for blue pills, I don't think they have much of a pool targeting me), it still posts new posts from people I follow chronologically.
Tumblr is never going to be The Next <insert many-billion dollar social network here>, but it does have a road to profitability and long-term sustainability now that it's being run by people who at least vaguely understand and respect its userbase.
> The app additionally saw a flood of new installs after Twitter’s acquisition, which may have contributed to higher consumer spending.
seems like an equally likely cause for revenue increase. Tumblr's parody verification feature launched right as the site's name was being thrown around for the first time in a while as a possible place for users to move to, should Twitter go belly up.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/flickr-weighs-support-for-...
I bought some myself as a joke, and then folks gifted me more.
They are just the funniest possible UI choice—they look so broken, they become beautiful.
I fully agree, the checkmarks are hilarious.
> given the slight bump in revenue
This manner of presenting multiples I've noticed most prominently in Apple marketing copy, and is terribly abhorrent, in my opinion, due to its ambiguity (notice the relative clarity when I say "their revenue has increased 25%"). The article also uses the latter sense when they say
> Sensor Tower says the in-app purchase revenue on iOS is up 19%
Otherwise “increased 1%” means “massive drop”
The fact that the article seems to use it to mean a 25% increase just highlights that TechCrunch has bad writers and no editors.
that from the reader's point of view it's always confusing and ambiguous.
> A display that’s up to 2x brighter in the sun.
if you click the arrow to look more, it elaborates
> For those bright, sunshiny days, the Super Retina XDR display now reaches a peak of 2000 nits outdoors — that’s twice as bright as before
whereas "up to 2x brighter" ought to mean (according to you, and my wishes) thrice as bright. If you look through the rest of the marketing copy, Apple consistently uses such language.
- My stock went up 100% == I doubled my money.
It’s not ambiguous. Apple uses correct grammar.
“2x as bright” or “twice as bright” is correct. “2x brighter” is not the same. Apple uses both.
#x implies multiplication (from the mathematical notation of multiplication, ×, which looks like the letter X). 1×a = a.