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Tumblr has been forced to manage spam and security problems. For example, a chain letter scam in May 2011 affected 130,000 users. [115] On December 3, 2012, Tumblr was attacked by a cross-site scripting worm deployed by the internet troll group Gay Nigger Association of America. The message urged users to harm themselves and criticized blogging ...
As of May 2007, there were 111 microblogging sites in various countries. [citation needed] Among the most notable services are Twitter, Tumblr, Mastodon, Micro.blog, FriendFeed, Plurk, Jaiku and identi.ca. Different versions of services and software with microblogging features have been developed.
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David Karp (born July 6, 1986) [1] is an American entrepreneur and blogger, best known as the founder and former CEO of the microblogging platform Tumblr. [2] [3]Karp began his career, without receiving a high school diploma, as an intern under Fred Seibert at the animation company Frederator Studios, where he built the studio's first blogging platform and conceived, wrote, and edited their ...
DashCon (originally titled Tumbl-Con USA) was a fan convention catering primarily to users of the blogging service Tumblr, with a particular emphasis on fandoms. [1] [2] [3] Held over the weekend of July 11, 2014, at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois, the inaugural convention quickly became infamous for allegations of mismanagement and corruption among ...
Tumblr was one of the few sites that not only tolerated but seemingly embraced its sex worker and adult artist communities, so it caught considerable flak when, with little warning, it banned ...
Seapunk is a subculture that originated on Tumblr in 2011. It is associated with an aquatic-themed style of fashion, 3D net art , iconography , and allusions to popular culture of the 1990s. The advent of seapunk also spawned its own electronic music microgenre , featuring elements of Southern hip hop and pop music and R&B music of the 1990s.
Tumblr's unique system of post dissemination and tagging both allows for the discussion of social justice issues and intense conflict between different online fan communities. Tumblr discourse trends towards separate camps around specific viewpoints and identities, creating highly combative "contact zones" where rival factions debate issues.