Top 3 Reasons To Ditch Twitter, And Join Tumblr

Following Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter acquisition deal, the unhappy users are now relentlessly looking for alternatives to the platform. With each passing day, uncertainty clouds Twitter as its new chief Elon Musk looks to bring in changes in subscriptions, content monetisation, and whatnot. 

In the last few weeks, Twitter was flooded with countless announcements from people making preparations to leave the platform or bidding goodbye forever. Hashtags such as #GoodbyeTwitter, #Mastodon, and #TwitterMigration were trending on the platform. According to a user counting bot, the decentralised and open source social network ‘Mastodon’ has gained over 100,000 users following the announcement. 

Ever since, users are reminiscing about one platform that was particularly popular in the early 2010s—‘Tumblr’. Founded by David Karp in 2007, Tumblr is a microblogging platform which allows users to share images, music, video, quotes, links, GIFs, and other forms of multimedia, more or less similar to Twitter. As of July 2021, the networking service has hosted over 529 million blogs. 

The platform witnessed peak popularity during 2012–2015 but found it difficult to recreate this popularity, partly due to the rise of other social media platforms such as TikTok.

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Here are a few reasons why you should ditch Twitter and join Tumblr.

GIFs, GIFs, and more GIFs  

Among the main features of Tumblr are the countless funny and interactive GIFs. Users can either press the pause button or  watch the single looping of the GIF over and over. In 2015, Tumblr launched “GIF Maker” for creating and sharing GIFs. “So many of the photos you create on your iPhone today are ready to be GIF’ed,” said founder David Karp.

Tumblr got Crabs 🦀

Source: Tumblr

On April 1, 2022 the platform released an update to the website which added a new feature. Not in literal terms, but ‘crabs’ are little dashboard widgets on Tumblr feeds. One of the platform’s widgets generates a crab each time a user clicks on it.  When pressed, the button would generate numerous pixelated crabs moving around the user's screen.

Posting Images 

Like every other platform, users will be allowed to add pictures on the dashboard. Here’s what Tumblr says: 

Moreover, the social media platform has reversed its nudity ban four years after announcing restrictions on explicit content. The company in a blog post said,“We now welcome a broader range of expression, creativity, and art on Tumblr, including content depicting the human form (yes, that includes the naked human form).”