Vito Glazers on Tumblr.com
History:
The social network and popular microblogging site tumblr is home to 180 million blogs and sold for over 1 billion dollars to Yahoo, Inc in 2013. It is based on a type of short form blogs known as tumblelogs and was launched as a platform for these types of small blogs in 2007.
Purpose:
Tumblr gives users the ability to produce quality blogs by sharing text, photos, quotes, links, chats and videos. The blogging platform allows users to simultaneously connect with people in their personal network or brands they follow and share their content as an expression of themselves on their homepages.
Pro’s:
1) Makes blogging very easy and accessible to any level user
2) .GIF’s
3) Desktop and mobile versions are similar, functional and efficient
Con’s:
1) Not extremely unique
2) Could benefit from integrating additional 3rd party applications for additional features
3) Have recently begun integrating sponsored posts and advertisements into users feeds
Social Network Review:
Tumblr is a great and easy way to host one or multiple simple blogs.
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