Ah, Tumblr: the source of our hopes, dreams and nightmares.
Yet Tumblr’s soon-to-be-parent company, Yahoo, invites only one thing: abject horror.
Apparently, Tumblr users are fleeing in droves upon hearing that the search giant is buying their haven for soap opera obsessions and anorexic horse pornography. From cnet.com:
Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg said his company saw a major uptick in Tumblr defections after news of the $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo came to light.
Writing on his personal blog Sunday evening, Mullenweg said that Wordpress usually imports 400 to 600 blog posts per hour from Tumblr. After news of the deal surfaced, the number of imported posts jumped to more than 72,000 blog posts in an hour.
Mullenweg updated his own blog post on Monday morning. “Some people are reading too much into the import numbers — I don’t think there will be an exodus from Tumblr,” he said, adding: “For most folks habits overcome internet-outrage. Even if a million people left, that’s just about a week’s worth of signups.”
Tumblr should be fine — maybe. The deal, announced today, is just the latest of acquisitions made by Yahoo, which tend to result in terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad things happening to the things they purchase.
This article appears in May 16-22, 2013.
What is Tumblr and why should I care?
Next to the mythical fairy dust “economy” of the banksters the internet has to be the biggest scam since bogus patent medicines.
Immense amounts of pretend “money” is being moved around (with speculators and sharks at every step dipping their beaks) on “businesses” that have no foot in reality, contribute little or nothing positive to society and last less than 5 years before imploding…
1.1 Billion $$$ for what? From a company that makes that money how?