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Company type | Private |
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Industry | social network service,micro-blogging |
Founded | 2007 |
Headquarters | , USA |
Number of employees | 192 |
Parent | Automattic![]() |
Website | www.tumblr.com |
Tumblris abloggingsite that began inNew York Cityin 2007.David Karpand Marco Arment began it. The site allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to a short-form blog, called a tumbleblog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. Tumblr focuses on being easy to use. The site has about 91.7 million posts a day[1]and gains about 15,000 new users on a day on average.[2]In 2013,Yahoobought Tumblr for$1.1billion.[3]After the sale to Yahoo, David Karp remained asCEO.
It is the 25th most popular website in the world.[4]
Famous people with Tumblr accounts includePresident Obama,Beyoncé,[5]and Lady Gaga.[6]
References[change|change source]
- ↑"Press Information - Tumblr".www.tumblr.com.
- ↑Boutin, Paul (2009-03-13)."Tumblr Makes Blogging Blissfully Easy".The New York Times.Retrieved2009-03-26.
- ↑Padmanabhan, Geeta (4 September 2013)."Yahoo buys a brimming Tumblr".The Hindu– via www.thehindu.com.
- ↑"Tumblr.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa".www.alexa.com.Archived fromthe originalon 2018-07-12.Retrieved2019-02-14.
- ↑"Beyoncé - I Am".iam.beyonce.com.
- ↑Evans, Meredith (2013-07-25)."Lady Gaga".Oxford Music Online.Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2242033.
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