What is Tumblr?

It’s some sort of blogging website. So, the more people that follow you, the more popular your blog will become. You can probably also make a lot of money if you set up advertising, but I’m not sure if Tumblr offers that.

I once asked a question about how to get more Fluther followers on Yahoo! Answers and everybody said either: “What is Fluther?” or “ZOMG!!!11 LOLz! Ur so gayz!!!*”

It’s a micro-blogging site. You post things, and then people that follow you see them. I don’t know how to describe it better than that, so allow me to suggest that you simply click here and you can get a better idea – that’s one of my favorite tumblrs. I also enjoy The Daily What, a really popular tumblr Most people that are looking to get followers are really new, and thus think it’s more like Facebook, where the number of friends is a status symbol, and where you interact much more with friends. If your tumblr becomes really big, you can set up advertising and make lots of money off of it, but I think most people just are under the impression that it’s a lot more interactive than it really is.

Its a blogging site, similar to Twitter. People just want more publicity and more readers for their blogs. There’s no scoring system that I know of. It’s just for more traffic.

There used to be a “scoring” system called Tumblarity, which claimed to be awarded based on how many followers you had, how many posts you made, how many times your posts were “liked” or reblogged, &c… Nobody could ever make any sense of whatever formula was used; it seemed completely arbitrary. It disappeared shortly after I joined the site and I hope it never comes back. It was ridiculous. Not that the whole site in general isn’t ridiculous… (I still love it, though.)