Tumblr is a popular blogging platform around the world that serves as space for bloggers to share videos, images, music, text, and a lot of gifs – with a social networking footprint, of course, including even the famous tanned Facebook. On the platform, each user has their own page/blog, which has a customizable design with different templates that allows editing HTML, creating unique sites.
Blog posts are often short and every user can comment and enjoy posts from other users. The Tumblr is easily accessed by the browser as our Facebook and Twitter, but also has applications for Android and iOS that facilitate the way to connect.
Although it has a different footprint from other blog platforms like WordPress and is more focused on short posts, Tumblr does not even become a microblog, like Twitter. Tumblr is explained as a space to celebrate creativity. “We want you to express yourself freely and use Tumblr to reflect who you are, what you like and what you believe in,” says the About page.
Much of Tumblr’s control and administration functions are accessible through the Dashboard interface, which allows the user to create new posts and change characteristics of their space on the network. many tips about how to untrack tags on Tumblr
In addition, it presents a timeline with posts of Tumblrs that the user follows, allowing the sharing, tastings, and comments.
Tumblr started in 2007 and is currently available in Portuguese and 15 languages. In total, the service hosts 304 million blogs that together total 136.6 billion posts.