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In June of 2006, the development of tumblr began. tumblr was founded by young David Karp. tumblr became public less than a year later.
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In February of 2007, tumblr was launched by its founder and ceo David Karp. tumblr is a social media traditionally used for blogging and posting photos. tumblr was founded by karp out of his mother's small apartment located in Manhattan.
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In February 2009, tumblr released its first app “tumblrette.” With this app users had the freedom to post to their blog whenever they wanted. This was the start of tumblr becoming very popular.
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In July of 2009, tumblr was receiving over 50 million views a month. Their was 6 posts every second and 2 reblogs for every second and a half. Every day tumblr was receiving 5,000 new users and they had 9 book deals.
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In June of 2012 tumblr released its new and improved ios app. Now users can blog from anywhere at anytime on their mobile devices faster and more efficiently . This new app improved the following massively.
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tumblr had its first big ad deal with adidas. Now with big companies wanting to be featured tumblr was able to bring in more money. This proved the extent of the popularity of tumblr.
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In may of 2013, tumblr was purchased by the Yahoo! ceo Marissa Mayer. At this time tumblr was receiving 100 million users a day with 90 million posts to follow. Mayer scored tumblr for $1.1 billion cash and her first words were “we promise not to screw it up.”
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tumblr had over 261 million blogs and over 123 billion posts. tumblr has become well known and loved by many teens of this generation. tumblr is home to Obama's first blog along with many other celebrities.
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In November, tumblr introduced a new function known as instant messaging. With instant messaging bloggers and connect with followers privately and contact friends. This function has lead to many collaborations between bloggers.
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As of today, tumblr is bigger than ever. More followers more celebrities and more fame. People are being recognized from their tumblrs and overall this site has been a great success.
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