Apple’s iPhone Live Photos Now Work On Tumblr

Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 3.53.40 PM If you’re a Tumblr user who happens to have an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus, today is your lucky day. The Tumblr team dropped an update which includes support for both 3D Touch and Live Photo. The Live Photo bit is super interesting because Tumblr is a place where GIFs and animated images tend to get shared and re-shared at pretty rapid rates. The best part is that you can view them even if… Read More

Tumblr Launches A “GIF Maker” For Mobile, Promises More Tools For Creative Expression To Come

tumblrgifmaker Tumblr today is launching a new tool that will capitalize on its community’s love for both creating and sharing GIFs with the debut of a mobile-only “GIF Maker.” The tool, which lets you quickly turn your iPhone videos or burst photos into GIFs, will not be a standalone application, but will rather become a core feature of the main Tumblr mobile app. “Tumblr is the home… Read More

Twitter Has Itself A Monday, Desktop Version Goes Down For Over A Half-Hour

Screen Shot 2015-09-14 at 12.02.05 PM It doesn’t happen that often anymore (that’s the real story!), but Twitter.com is down. For the count. As of the time of publishing, its been down for about 45 minutes. We’ve checked Twitter’s status page on Tumblr, but there’s nothing there. We’ve also reached out to Twitter for comment and will update you once we hear something back. Twitter’s… Read More

Welcome To Hipster Hell, Tumblr Now Has Its Own Clothing Line

Screen Shot 2015-09-11 at 2.52.08 PM If the pervasiveness of shitty memes on the web weren’t enough, it seems they’re soon going to be inhabiting the real world… worn by people walking on the streets of Earth.
Tumblr just announced a new clothing line designed by 10 different Tumblr artists at New York Fashion Week, The New York Times reports. Read More

Tumblr Launches “Tumblr TV,” A GIF Search Engine With A Full-Screen Viewing Mode

tumblrtv Following the rollout of Tumblr’s GIF search engine earlier this month, the blogging platform is today launching another new feature aimed at helping users discover and share GIFs: Tumblr TV. The addition is a combination of a search and viewing feature for GIFs, which helps you find the animated images housed on Tumblr and then view them in a full-screen mode. The “TV” part… Read More

Tumblr Debuts Its Own GIF Search Engine

GIFgif Tumblr this morning is rolling out a new feature designed to take advantage of the extensive collection of GIFs hosted on its service: a GIF search engine. The news follows that of Facebook’s decision to officially support the animated file format on users’ Timelines, announced last week. With Tumblr’s implementation, web users will now be able to more easily locate GIFs… Read More

Tumblr 4.0 Arrives On iOS With Better Blogging Tools, Filtered Search, And A New Widget

tumblr-40 Tumblr this morning has begun to roll out a sizable update to its iOS application with the release of Tumblr 4.0. The new application, which also now appears under a revamped app icon, includes a number of features that previously have been available only on the desktop, like the ability to create secondary blogs on the fly or submit to submission blogs, for example. Meanwhile, other… Read More

Tumblr’s Mobile App Will Now Add ‘Buy,’ ‘Pledge,’ And ‘Get Involved’ Buttons To Select Posts

Screen Shot 2015-03-27 at 2.34.32 PM Tumblr today introduced a change to its service that will encourage users to purchase or fund products and campaigns on other websites, including Etsy’s online marketplace and Kickstarter, for example. With an update to its mobile application for iOS, posts that link to those sites as well as DoSomething.org will now automatically be given buttons that let others “Buy,” or… Read More