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What’s Next for Tumblr?

Direct Marketing Observations

Yahoo’s recent announcement of it’s intent to purchase Tumblr has brought out the virtual fangs. Tumblr users are passionate and are worried about what will happen to their platform. ” If the deal goes down, Tumblr as you and I once knew it, may be done. Is that what lies ahead for Tumblr?

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Teens Prefer Tumblr Over Facebook

The Realtime Report

Tumblr is more popular than Facebook among young social media users, according to a recent survey by Posterous co-founder Garry Tan. Here’s the breakdown per platform: Tumblr dominated, used regularly by 61% of teens and 57% of young adults surveyed. Facebook drew in 55% of teens and 52% of young adults.

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Social Networking Stats: Tumblr Serves 20 Billion Page Views Per Month, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

Tumblr: 80 million blogs. via Tumblr. Posterous: 15 million monthly users. via Posterous. Tumblr Serves 20 Billion Page Views Per Month. Tumblr is now “pushing more than 20 billion page views a month” said CEO David Karp at GigaOM’s Roadmap 2012 conference. via Google. via TechCrunch.

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Why Tumblr Might Be The Perfect Vehicle For Your Brand

Small Business Mavericks

Aside from the fact that web properties like Geocities and Posterous have been cut off from the World Wide Web – and it could happen to Tumblr too – Tumblr might actually be a good way to help you attract new readers for your blog and new customers for your business. If you do it well, you can get them ranked highly.

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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

Tumblr Tumblr is a form of micro-blogging and you can say that its simplicity is both an advantage and a disadvantage. In that way it is more or less easy to connect with other bloggers on the Tumblr platform, but it can also be a downside that it is a closed community with no external comment options.

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How to import Posterous to self-hosted WordPress

The Way of the Web

With the news that Posterous will be closing on April 30, 2013 , many people are now looking to export their content and start to publish on a different platform. So assuming you don’t want to move from Posterous to another third party service like WordPress.com, Tumblr etc, what do you need to do?

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Social Networking Stats: 25 Million LinkedIn Profile Pages Viewed Daily, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

Tumblr: 77 million blogs. via Tumblr. Posterous: 15 million monthly users. via Posterous. Google Plus: 100 million monthly active users. via Google. Instagram: 100 million users. via TechCrunch. Tagged: 20 million unique monthly users. via Tagged. Foursquare: over 25 million users. via SmartBlog on Social Media.