Look! Everyone's leaving…uh…Instagram? =)
Reshared post from +Elaine Barlow
In what can only be called an exodus, WordPress’ co-founder Matt Mullenweg posted on his blog Sunday night that over 72,000 new blog posts were imported within a single hour. This is a massive spike considering that #WordPress usually just sees 400 to 600 imported posts on most Sundays. It’s a tiny percentage of Tumblr’s 50.9B posts but it’s an important consideration that #Tumblr – and now Yahoo – cannot ignore. WordPress is likely going to be the largest benefactor of Tumblr’s exodus. As Mullenweg notes, the two services have long enjoyed a close relationship. It only takes a few clicks to import a Tumblr site to a WordPress install.
Tumblr’s Loss Is WordPress’ Gain As Thousands Of Users Jump Ship Before Yahoo Takes Over | TechCrunch
In what can only be called an exodus, WordPress’ co-founder Matt Mullenweg posted on his blog Sunday night that over 72,000 new blog posts were imported within a single hour. This is a massive spike considering that WordPress usually just sees 400 to 600 imported posts on most Sundays. It’s..
I think a lot of those people will go back to Tumblr once they realize WordPress isn't Tumblr.
I think that "72,000 posts moved to WordPress" is, in reality, a pretty small number compared to the total number of posts Tumblr sees in an hour.
I think the people that jumped ship were the people who where already thinking "Hmm. y'know? I should think about starting a real grownup blog someday.", and the Yahoo Merger news was just the breeze that encouraged them to make the leap.
You're probably right, +Jonathon Barton. I don't use, nor ever go to Tumblr.
I never saw the point of it. It's just another 4chan at this rate, anyways.