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What is Tumblr?

Tumblr is a feature rich and free blog hosting platform offering professional and fully customizable templates, bookmarklets, photos, mobile apps, and social network. The site now ranks as the 11th-largest in terms of traffic, according to Quantcast, with 170 million monthly visitors globally.
Tumblr is a tool in the Hosted Blogging Platforms category of a tech stack.

Who uses Tumblr?

Companies
132 companies reportedly use Tumblr in their tech stacks, including Snapchat, Accenture, and Tumblr.

Developers
157 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Tumblr.

Tumblr Integrations

AddThis, Disqus, Qualaroo, Crowdin, and Wistia are some of the popular tools that integrate with Tumblr. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Tumblr.
Pros of Tumblr
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Free
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Easy setup
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Modern Layout
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Simple
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Feature rich
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Mobile App
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No ads on blogs
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Backed by Yahoo
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Blogging simplified
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Fully customizable HTML/CSS
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Free personal domain mapping
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Rich, flexible API for rich themes

Tumblr's Features

  • Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML.

Tumblr Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Tumblr?
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Weebly
Weebly is an AJAX website creator that allows you to create pages with template skins and content widgets. Users can easily drag-and-drop content widgets like pictures, text, video and Google Maps in WYSIWYG-fashion.
Blogger
Since Blogger was launched in 1999, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.
Medium
Medium is a different kind of place on the internet. A place where the measure of success isn’t views, but viewpoints. Where the quality of the idea matters, not the author’s qualifications. A place where conversation pushes ideas forward.
Google AdSense
It is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience.
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Tumblr's Followers
180 developers follow Tumblr to keep up with related blogs and decisions.