Tumblr
A microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007.
Proper noun
- A microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007.
- What is different about “quick blogging” tools like Twitter (which imposes a strict character count so it can be easily used on a cellphone) and Tumblr (which allows longer messages as well as photographs) is the degree...
- There are other services for reporting where you’re traveling (Dopplr) or for quickly tossing online a stream of the pictures, videos or Web sites you’re looking at (Tumblr). - 2008 September 5, Clive Thompson, “Brave...
- If Facebook is the social network for online identification and authentication, and Twitter is for communication, Tumblr fulfils a different role: self-expression. - 2012 March, Tom Cheshire, “Tumbling on success: How...
Origin
From tumblelog, an early form of microblogs.
Derived
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Noun
- A microblog on Tumblr.
- Fangirling on your own behind your computer screen is fine and dandy, but once you’ve seen the most popular fan blogs and fansites, the Tumblrs with the most followers, or the message boards where everyone seems to know...
- But despite its confusing themes and erratic jump cuts between unnamed personas, the sentiments expressed are quite familiar to anyone who has visited the Tumblrs of teen girls – as are the images and linguistic...
- Like Cole, Myers also cites the 2014 Allied Media Conference as a turning point, an opportunity to meet many of the people behind the Tumblrs they followed and with whom they chatted. - 2021, Moya Bailey, “Alchemists in...
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Verb
- To post (something) on Tumblr.
- One element of its national campaign around the November elections was the Clipboard Project, which took photographs of roughly 200 music and entertainment stars holding HeadCount’s Register to Vote clipboard. These...