Comments on: Is Tumblr the new Facebook or the new MySpace? http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/ Sat, 25 May 2013 11:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jørn Eriksson http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-693301 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:15:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-693301 Is Tumblr the new Facebook? http://t.co/G8S4VLVx

]]> By: forum it http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-636342 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:34:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-636342 Tumblr is not going to overtake Facebook!

]]> By: Joey Muller http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-635575 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:58:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-635575 I switched from WordPress to Tumblr for my personal site http://joeymuller.com because to dig into a WP theme, you had to keep tabs on a dozen or more files. When Tumblr came along I quickly jumped over. And that was before I realized the entire theme lives on just one html file, a brilliant feat not widely talked about. Obviously, WP offers much more control if that’s what you need.

Tumblr as the next MySpace? I don’t see it. Facebook? Don’t see that either. A Twitter competitor? Kind of, but more like a Twitter complement.

]]> By: rodica http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-635294 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:57:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-635294 I started using Tumblr more because I rarely have time to blog, but I may have thoughts/images/quotes to share that are larger than Twitter’s 140 characters, and yet shorter than what’s expected from a blog entry. Another interesting observation for the Tumblr user base is that they seem to be less eager to comment/write replies to posts (even the one-liners common on facebook), but they will reblog and “like” posts to a greater extent in order to signal good quality content.

]]> By: Mick Weinstein http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-634734 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:16:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-634734 The visual element is extremely important on Tumblr – some of the best tumblogs are mostly visual, and there’s something unique about the Dashboard’s visual dimension that you don’t find on the FB News Feed (stronger text element still at FB). So it makes me wonder if Tumblr is actually what Flickr wanted to be and never really became – the social sharing service for visual content.

]]> By: Tom Davenport http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-634731 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:10:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-634731 It’s more like twitter than anything else. Twitter stole its thunder a few years ago, but its managed to pull back. The whole reblog and timeline style really is like a longform twitter. If it wasn’t so image and ‘LOL’ centric, it would be a really appealing alternative.

]]> By: Mark Mayhew http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-634603 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:57:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-634603 I’ve been trying to “get” Tumblr for years now, I might just be starting to get the hang of it (I’m still finding it hard/impossible to comment on posts, find other users, etc) http://markmayhew.tumblr.com.

]]> By: Mark Mayhew http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-634604 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:57:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-634604 I’ve been trying to “get” Tumblr for years now, I might just be starting to get the hang of it (I’m still finding it hard/impossible to comment on posts, find other users, etc) http://markmayhew.tumblr.com.

]]> By: Ariel http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-634627 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:59:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-634627 I was just about to say that. :) It has a lot of the same drama as livejournal, too.

]]> By: Axel Riemann http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/is-tumblr-the-new-facebook-or-the-new-myspace/#comment-634605 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:48:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=368649#comment-634605 Though tumblr is more customizable than Facebook and quite as fast a twitter, it’s had more than just a fair share of outages and technical problems over the past months. Thus, it’s too unstable for serious blogging. I do like the ability to post links and other stuff quicker than on a normal blogging platform.

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