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How about selling Tumblr to where its community has seem to gone? Twitter. Gives Twitter a long format and a better platform for content.

ilikehurdles 7y ago
I don’t think they all went to one place. You say Twitter but my anecdotal impression was reddit.
- 1ris 7y ago
  My anecdotal impression was 4chans anime boards.
- nickthegreek 7y ago
  I have some model and photographer friends who were big on Tumblr and they came to visit me a couple weeks ago. They ran popular tumblr blogs and are fully financed from their Patreons. Their said all their friends who's livelyhood depended on their reach switched to twitter from tumblr. I'm sure the small porn blogs or so just died or maybe went somewhere else. But twitter is where the bulk of the professionals took refuge.
kristianc 7y ago
My impression of Twitter is that it is people hungry to build a reputation and a 'personal brand' and Tumblr trades on anonymity?
- kenhwang 7y ago
  Both are as branded or anonymous as you want it to be and I've seen both used for either. I really think the key component for both is how easy it is to share and discuss content that the sharer didn't create with people they don't know with as much or little privacy as they want. That makes it different from Instagram which is focused on original content with little discussion. Reddit which is focused on new content with much heavier focus on discussion. Facebook which is supposed to be for personal content with familiar people.
  - kristianc 7y ago
    Sure - Twitter may not have any specific requirement for you to use a real name, but Twitter will also likely go out of its way to make make your life uncomfortable if you do wish to remain anonymous (not limited to requiring a phone number, excluding you from nice trinkets such as verification, deprioritizing you in its algorithm if you're sharing from a private account, making it harder to RT you). The use case for Twitter is clearly building out a public persona. I'm not aware of many that were trying to do that with Tumblr.

ilikehurdles 7y ago

I don’t think they all went to one place. You say Twitter but my anecdotal impression was reddit.

1ris 7y ago
My anecdotal impression was 4chans anime boards.
nickthegreek 7y ago
I have some model and photographer friends who were big on Tumblr and they came to visit me a couple weeks ago. They ran popular tumblr blogs and are fully financed from their Patreons. Their said all their friends who's livelyhood depended on their reach switched to twitter from tumblr. I'm sure the small porn blogs or so just died or maybe went somewhere else. But twitter is where the bulk of the professionals took refuge.

kristianc 7y ago

My impression of Twitter is that it is people hungry to build a reputation and a 'personal brand' and Tumblr trades on anonymity?

kenhwang 7y ago
Both are as branded or anonymous as you want it to be and I've seen both used for either. I really think the key component for both is how easy it is to share and discuss content that the sharer didn't create with people they don't know with as much or little privacy as they want. That makes it different from Instagram which is focused on original content with little discussion. Reddit which is focused on new content with much heavier focus on discussion. Facebook which is supposed to be for personal content with familiar people.
- kristianc 7y ago
  Sure - Twitter may not have any specific requirement for you to use a real name, but Twitter will also likely go out of its way to make make your life uncomfortable if you do wish to remain anonymous (not limited to requiring a phone number, excluding you from nice trinkets such as verification, deprioritizing you in its algorithm if you're sharing from a private account, making it harder to RT you). The use case for Twitter is clearly building out a public persona. I'm not aware of many that were trying to do that with Tumblr.