Comments on: Is Tumblr the Twitter Killer?

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:59:18 +0000

Adam one thing Tumblr has that helps ppl with little time is a very simple queue and scheduling process. There are also plugins that allow you to just drag things from your browser into your blog.

You could enter a quote, an image url, a video url on youtube, and just a status about your week, all in under 10 minutes, put them in your queue, then set it to post a new article every 24 hours.

It’s easy to move things around to determine the order they will be posted in.

You can also auto integrate feeds from your personal blog into tumblr to promote your other articles!

Good luck!

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:56:32 +0000

I have a tumblr account, but haven’t really fully delved into it yet. With only so much time in each day to designate to my blog, I usually focus on Twitter and Facebook promotion. Sounds like I might need to switch things up a bit!

By: thefightingninja

thefightingninja — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:22:06 +0000

This was really informative! Glad I read.
I find it funny though that there isn’t a tumblr option on the ‘share this’ and you also haven’t provided your blog link in your about me section (i don’t know, maybe you wanted to keep that private).

I had twitter for a few months, but it just got boring REALLY quick. being limited to the amount of characters used is frustrating at times. Tumblr is just a more fun community.

I think twitter’s June/July users went up because of all the celebrity deaths.

Anyways, again, informative article! :)

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:09:38 +0000

The lack of commenting, or my inability to find it, also drives me nuts. The only thing I can see so far is to reblog an article and ad your comment under it. This basically requires you to blog all your comments to people, I don’t like that.

Maybe I’m just missing something here. I agree completely commenting is the biggest shortcoming.

By: Danielpholt

Danielpholt — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:09:07 +0000

Nice article.

I use both tumblr and twitter a lot, and whilst i appreiciate what twitter does, if i had a gun to my head and was being forced to drop one of them, twitter would be on the wrong end of that decision.

I feel as though there is more a community on tumblr, couple that with the charecterless limit, and the customizable (and free) blog site, its a winner in my eyes.

Twitter does what it does well, but i think it gets held back somewhat by the media perseption of just exactly what it does. For example, none of my friends use it, why? i have no idea but i do think its got something to do with their lack of understanding. They think its simply a flashy timeline.

What are you upto? I think ‘What are you thinking’ might be a better question to ask.

By: chad

chad — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:58:54 +0000

Informative article! I agree that tumblr has a lot of potential. They have been around a while, but they didn’t take the option to sell out to the masses early on like twitter. It has stalled growth, but it also encouraged them to think each new addition carefully.

They are lacking some simple features, such as a commenting system, that would allow them to bridge the gaps in the user experience. If they can implement a few of those successfully, I think it can build some roots as a powerful web tool.