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The staff at Tumblr have some thoughts about Twitter’s decision to offer verification to anyone for $7.99 a month. In a post made on the social media network’s staff page on Thursday, Tumblr introduced the option for users to purchase two blue checkmarks to appear next to their account name for $7.99. For those who […]

Elon Musk is becoming the new owner of Twitter, and many on the platform are less than thrilled about the change.  On Monday, it was announced that Twitter Inc. will be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk,” for a reported bid of roughly $44 billion. And as a result, the company will go […]

Tumblr is being sold. More specifically, the microblogging/social network will go from Verizon to Automattic Inc., the owner of the blogging host WordPress.  In addition to occasionally housing posts from celebrities looking to reach out directly to fans (like Taylor Swift did via an open letter this past June) Tumblr also brings with it a passionate […]

Tumblr is getting quite the traffic boost right now, as Frank Ocean has taken to his preferred announcement platform to seemingly tease the imminent arrival of new music. In one post, Ocean teased the date March 1 and said simply “Solana + KL + Andre.” In another post, he wrote, “? (2019) ? (2019) ? (2020).” […]

Earlier this week, Tumblr announced its decision to ban explicit adult content from its site beginning on Dec. 17. But when you use algorithms and AI to filter content, instead of human moderators, the results are likely going to miss the mark. As Uproxx points out, the platform is now flagging some totally innocuous posts for being […]