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The sheer amount of content on Tumblr makes it a joy to browse, though sometimes you really do have to filter through a lot of repetitive content to get to the good stuff. For that reason, we’ve put together lists of recommended Tumblr blogs that we think you should be following. This week we’re taking a stab at all things Game of Thrones on Tumblr.
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We all knew it was coming. Back in February Twitter announced that it would be shutting down Posterous by the end of April. Some bloggers saw it coming from the day that Twitter acquired the popular blogging platform. With that day finally here, if you’re still looking for an alternative to meet your blogging and automated sharing needs, we’ve come up with a list of 6 viable alternatives.
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Are you big fans of Tumblr? Here at MakeUseOf, we certainly are. The blogging platform brings together the idea of blogging together with social networking and has become home to some of the most creative, entertaining, humorous and thoughtful posts we've ever come across. With an easy-to-use backend that lends itself to both creating new content and sharing content that you like, it is home to some of the most viral content on the Web.
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The folks at Tumblr are certainly having a busy couple days in terms of the platform's mobile lineup of mobile applications. After adding sponsored posts to its mobile apps just a few days ago, it has now released a fairly major update for its iOS application, and an official Windows Phone 8 app. On iOS, sharing posts is now easier, as well as saving them for later. App navigation has also been improved.
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Popular microblogging platform Tumblr announced yesterday that it's now serving ads on its iPhone and Android apps. This move comes a year after Tumblr initially allowed ads to appear on its Web interface. These ads will now be arriving on your mobile Tumblr interface, bu they will look a little different; when looking at a sponsored post, you'll be able to recognize it as such by an animated dollar sign which will appear on the top right corner of the post.
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Are you big fans of Tumblr? Here at MakeUseOf, we certainly are. The blogging platform brings together the idea of blogging together with social networking and has become home to some of the most creative, entertaining, humourous and thoughtful posts we’ve ever come across. With an easy-to-use backend that lends itself to both creating new content and sharing content that you like, it is home to some of the most viral content on the Web.
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Tumblr for Android received a new update on Monday that completely revamped its design, which now follows Google's Holo design conventions, and makes Tumblr's mobile app even more interactive. The most prominent addition to the new Tumblr app is its incorporation of a brand new "post anything" screen. This interactive menu features an artistic arch of bubbled menu options which lets you instantly share videos, photos, quotes, chats, and links.
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Are you big fans of Tumblr? Here at MakeUseOf, we certainly are. The blogging platform brings together the idea of blogging together with social networking and has become home to some of the most creative, entertaining, humourous and thoughtful posts we've ever come across. This week we're taking a stab at some of the funnier offerings available on Tumblr.
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Tumblr is known as being a great blogging platform for visual content, and is a photographer's smorgasbord of just about everything you could possibly imagine. That said, there's also an incredible wealth of content that can provide inspiration to writers, poets and book lovers. We've already introduced to you to 10 creative blogging ideas to try out on Tumblr if you're suffering from writer's block, and you can now combine them with these 8 blogs.
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Zendesk, the email and contact support client used by Tumblr, Twitter, and Pinterest, has been compromised, and user's email addresses have been stolen during the breach. Tumblr is sending out emails informing users of the situation, but Twitter and Pinterest are also seeing the same ill effects.
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Real-time notifications were one of the missing pieces for Tumblr and now it has gone ahead and added it to the dashboard. The idea is to increase user engagement with those one follows on Tumblr.
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Tumblr for iPhone changed its usage agreement on Wednesday and became an app solely for ages 17 and up. This followed Apple's recent nudity-related removal of 500px and its cease of promotion for Vine.
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With Twitter and Instagram now in a position of rivalry, since Facebook bought the photo-sharing app, the pair have slowly been killing off ways in which users can integrate their Instagram and Twitter experiences. Instagram recently pulled a pretty significant Twitter-related feature. Luckily there are a few workarounds that will make it possible to keep viewing your Instagram photos - be it filtered images of your breakfast or something a little more serious - in your Twitter timeline.
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When it comes to blogging platforms, it's a crowded industry, with the likes of WordPress and Tumblr definitely taking the lion's share of users looking for an easy way to showcase their work. Founded in New York city just last year, Jux is somewhat of a newcomer, but offers a set of pretty impressive features that might have you ditching your preferred platform in favor of this one.
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There was a glorious shout across the land when the Tumblr app was released for iPhone. It erupted from the vocal cords of hipsters worldwide. Paired with Instagram, Tumblr for the iPhone opened up a whole new world of self-expression. Rather than waiting on the long bicycle ride home to post things using the good ol' Macbook, the hipster could now post as many pictures of vintage sweaters as they wanted with just a few taps to the screen.
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