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"Imports have actually spiked on the rumors even though it’s Sunday: normally we import 400-600 posts an hour from Tumblr, last hour it was over 72,000." He po

"Imports have actually spiked on the rumors even though it’s Sunday: normally we import 400-600 posts an hour from Tumblr, last hour it was over 72,000." He posted a rate of posts (as you mentioned), rounded down, for the "last hour". When I read stuff like this that covers fields that I know (or blog posts I happen to have read) it really makes me wonder when I'm reading sites covering topics outside of by domain of knowledge, be they Engadget or the Economist.

PakG1 13y ago
Numbers are relevant when there is context to properly digest those numbers. Here's some comparison from the flipside from Yahoo's press release: With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of the fastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent on site each month. http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?&ReleaseID=765892 http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?&Re... 120,000 new accounts every day is amazing. While I don't know how many accounts made up those 72,000 posts over that hour, I can imagine it being easily and quickly wiped out by new posts. 900 posts per second is 3.24 million posts per hour. 72,000 is 2.22%. If that number keeps growing and the 900 posts per second number drops, then this is interesting news. Until then, it's just posturing by WordPress (or perhaps just a cheap publicity stunt).
- w1ntermute 13y ago
  > 120,000 new accounts every day is amazing. Again, context is needed. The exact word they used was "signup." Are they referring to new users, or new blogs created by the same users? I recall someone saying that one of the upsides of Tumblr is how easy it is to just create a new blog when you have a random idea for one. Also, 900 posts/second isn't hard to achieve if most users are using the site to post a pic or a short message.
- AJ007 13y ago
  Its even less amazing when the posts are copies of existing content. Tumblr is more like instant messaging or social networking than blogging. And yes, a big question is how many of those new accounts are new users verse existing users and spam.
- nrkn 13y ago
  72k posts could be just a handful of active accounts. My own has 15k or so posts and I often don't touch it for weeks at a time.

PakG1 13y ago

Numbers are relevant when there is context to properly digest those numbers. Here's some comparison from the flipside from Yahoo's press release: With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of the fastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent on site each month. http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?&ReleaseID=765892 http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?&Re... 120,000 new accounts every day is amazing. While I don't know how many accounts made up those 72,000 posts over that hour, I can imagine it being easily and quickly wiped out by new posts. 900 posts per second is 3.24 million posts per hour. 72,000 is 2.22%. If that number keeps growing and the 900 posts per second number drops, then this is interesting news. Until then, it's just posturing by WordPress (or perhaps just a cheap publicity stunt).

w1ntermute 13y ago
> 120,000 new accounts every day is amazing. Again, context is needed. The exact word they used was "signup." Are they referring to new users, or new blogs created by the same users? I recall someone saying that one of the upsides of Tumblr is how easy it is to just create a new blog when you have a random idea for one. Also, 900 posts/second isn't hard to achieve if most users are using the site to post a pic or a short message.
AJ007 13y ago
Its even less amazing when the posts are copies of existing content. Tumblr is more like instant messaging or social networking than blogging. And yes, a big question is how many of those new accounts are new users verse existing users and spam.
nrkn 13y ago
72k posts could be just a handful of active accounts. My own has 15k or so posts and I often don't touch it for weeks at a time.