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Tumblr, Inc.
Private
Industry social network service, micro-blogging
Founded 2007
Headquarters
New York City
,
USA
Number of employees
 192

Tumblr is a blogging site that began in New York City in 2007 by founders David Karp and Marco Arment. The site allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to a short-form blog, called a tumbleblog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. Tumblr emphasizes ease of use. The site has roughly 91.7 million posts a day and gains about 15,000 new users on a day on average. In 2013, Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. After the sale to Yahoo, David Karp remained as CEO.

It is the 25th most popular website in the world.

Famous people with Tumblr accounts include President Obama, Beyoncé, and Lady Gaga.

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  • Tumblr blog post on an informational screen inside of an NS train, Utrecht Central Station (2019) 02

    A Tumblr blog post shown on an information screen in a Dutch train station, 2019

  • AOL 770

    Tumblr's headquarters are located in the 770 Broadway building in New York City.

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