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Re: Posterous to Tumblr

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Post by danso »

It's interesting to me that people who were just burned by Posterous would be OK with going to Tumblr. I like Tumblr a lot and have one myself, but it's still working out its monetization strategy:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/01/02/tumblr-...

> Money isn’t that pressing an issue–yet. Karp says Tumblr has banked “most of” the $125 million it has raised. But Tumblr spent an estimated $25 million on its operation last year and will likely have to shell out up to $40 million this year. In 2013 David Karp has a race on his hands: Can he break into the black before needing to hold his hand out again for investors?

The mobile tools for Tumblr are definitely a plus. But if you aren't blogging at a rate that requires you to have scheduling tools, then I wonder if it'd just be easier to set up a Jekyll powered blog. You lose the social-network effect of Tumblr (the reblogs and like), but from what I've seen, it's visual blogs that get reblogged/liked the most, because of how users interact (and see things) in their dashboard.

Re: Posterous to Tumblr

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Post by pseut »

danso wrote: post #2

It's interesting to me that people who were just burned by Posterous would be OK with going to Tumblr. I like Tumblr a lot and have one myself, but it's still working out its monetization strategy: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/01/02/tumblr-... > Money isn’t that pressing an issue–yet. Karp says Tumblr has banked “most of” the $125 million it has raised. But Tumblr spent an estimated $25 million on i…

If you set up a tumblr with your own domain name, what's the problem?
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