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plural tumblrs

1. Alternative letter-case form of Tumblr (“a microblog on Tumblr”).

   People create their tumblrs and link to them from their email signatures and Facebook and Twitter profiles.

   2013, Thomas Eisenmann, editor, Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts, O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 192

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   As in the web version, upon opening the mobile app you’ll be taken to your dashboard and a list of all the most recent posts from the tumblrs you follow.

   2012, Sean Mahoney, The Rough Guide to Social Media for Beginners: Getting Started with Facebook, Twitter and Google+, Rough Guides, →ISBN

   All participants feel that their tumblrs ‘reflect parts of their personality’, with many of them identifying very strongly with the content, layout, style and mood of their websites.

   2017, Dinu Gabriel Munteanu, “Improbable Curators: Analysing Nostalgia, Authorship and Audience on Tumblr Microblogs”, in James Graham, Alessandro Gandini, editors, Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries, University of Westminster Press, →ISBN, page 150

   In examining the patronage platforms for the following case study, we found that Twitter and Instagram are most popular among this grouping of cosplayers; many did not link to their tumblrs in their linktrees, so while tumblr has a large amount of fan users, we were unable to determine whether these cosplayers also used the platform.

   2021 September 2, Lauren Rouse, Anastasia Salter, “Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur”, in Social Media + Society, SAGE Publications, →DOI, page 4, column 2

1. A microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007.

   If Facebook is the social network for online identification and authentication, and Twitter is for communication, Tumblr fulfils a different role: self-expression.

   2012 March, Tom Cheshire, “Tumbling on success: How Tumblr's David Karp built a £500 million empire”, in Wired UK, →ISSN

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   What is different about “quick blogging” tools like Twitter (which imposes a strict character count so it can be easily used on a cellphone) and Tumblr (which allows longer messages as well as photographs) is the degree to which people use them for spontaneous and almost continuous communication.

   2007 November 4, Noam Cohen, “The Global Sympathetic Audience”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   There are other services for reporting where you’re traveling (Dopplr) or for quickly tossing online a stream of the pictures, videos or Web sites you’re looking at (Tumblr).

   2008 September 5, Clive Thompson, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

plural Tumblrs

1. A microblog on Tumblr.

   Like Cole, Myers also cites the 2014 Allied Media Conference as a turning point, an opportunity to meet many of the people behind the Tumblrs they followed and with whom they chatted.

   2021, Moya Bailey, “Alchemists in Action against Misogynoir”, in Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, New York University Press, published 2022, →ISBN, page 168

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   Fangirling on your own behind your computer screen is fine and dandy, but once you’ve seen the most popular fan blogs and fansites, the Tumblrs with the most followers, or the message boards where everyone seems to know one another, you’re gonna want in on that excellent fandom party.

   2015, Sam Maggs, “Engage! Become an Active Member of Your Fandom”, in The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk Books, →ISBN

   But despite its confusing themes and erratic jump cuts between unnamed personas, the sentiments expressed are quite familiar to anyone who has visited the Tumblrs of teen girls – as are the images and linguistic choices.

   2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, Routledge, →ISBN

present singular third person Tumblrs · participle present Tumblring · participle present Tumblr'ing · participle past Tumblr'ed · past Tumblr'ed · participle past Tumblr'd · past Tumblr'd

1. transitiveTo post (something) on Tumblr.

   [quoting Emily Gould] I tumbld, I tweeted, and I scrolled.

   2016, Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, page 25

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   One element of its national campaign around the November elections was the Clipboard Project, which took photographs of roughly 200 music and entertainment stars holding HeadCount’s Register to Vote clipboard. These images were then tweeted, Facebooked, and linked to the official Web site to be pinned, Tumblr’ed, recommended on Google, StumbleUpon’ed, shared on Digg or Reddit, or otherwise circulated.

   2014, Jennifer Jeanne Richardson, “HeadCount”, in Kerric Harvey, editor, Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, volume 2, Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 626