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Development of Tumblr Begins
David Karp and developer Marco Arment began working on their own tumblelogging platform after Karp had been interested in tumblelogs (short-form blogs) for some time and was waiting for one of the established blogging platforms to introduce their own tumblelogging platform. As no one had done so he began work on developing tumblr. -
Tumblr Launched
Tumblr was launched in February 2007 and within two weeks, the service had gained 75,000 users -
Option to Reblog introduced
Users could now reblog other users content. -
Users can now post Audio posts and tags
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Notifications for new followers and reblogs introduced
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Blue Dashboard introduced
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Likes introduced
Bloggers can now like each others photos -
Twitter integrates with tumblr
Twitter integrates with tumblr and draft and queue options introduced -
Iphone App
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Endless Scrolling and Photosets introduced
Users can now scroll endlessly on the dashboard and add photo sets -
Facebook and Tumblr Unite
Option to post to facebook now avaliable -
Servers go down temporarily
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Company Recieves $85 million in investments
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President Barack Obama opens Tumblr account
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Astronaut makes tumblr post from out of space
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Yahoo acquires tumblr for 1.1 billion
