Dec 20
81

dailydot:

The top 10 most influential people on Tumblr in 2012
1) President Barack Obama Commander in GIF
In what was dubbed the Facebook election, Barack Obama leveraged social media to help win the 2008 presidential election. This year, Obama’s campaign added Tumblr to its repertoire. His official Tumblr blog has more than 1,240 posts, out-blogging his opponent Mitt Romney almost every step of the way. More importantly, Obama’s campaign used Tumblr to interact directly with users in a way that was relatable, posting GIFs of the president listening to music and giving speeches.
“It gets him in front of a much larger audience, especially more and more young people who spend time on the Internet,” said Tyler Pearson, a front-end developer and designer for New Media Campaigns, a North Carolina-based creative agency that helps build politicians’ Web presence.
And as was the case in 2008, all that time online paid off. Especially on Tumblr. On election night 2012, Obama collected more than 75,000 mentions compared to Romney’s 35,000.

The whole list is pretty great.

The top 10 most influential people on Tumblr in 2012

1) President Barack Obama Commander in GIF

In what was dubbed the Facebook election, Barack Obama leveraged social media to help win the 2008 presidential election. This year, Obama’s campaign added Tumblr to its repertoire. His official Tumblr blog has more than 1,240 posts, out-blogging his opponent Mitt Romney almost every step of the way. More importantly, Obama’s campaign used Tumblr to interact directly with users in a way that was relatable, posting GIFs of the president listening to music and giving speeches.

“It gets him in front of a much larger audience, especially more and more young people who spend time on the Internet,” said Tyler Pearson, a front-end developer and designer for New Media Campaigns, a North Carolina-based creative agency that helps build politicians’ Web presence.

And as was the case in 2008, all that time online paid off. Especially on Tumblr. On election night 2012, Obama collected more than 75,000 mentions compared to Romney’s 35,000.

The whole list is pretty great.

tumblr

Dec 12
415

Get in loser, we’re going to Washington! Well, Mean Girls of Capitol Hill is.

Tumblr

Dec 11
19

Tumblr Crushes:

Honorable Mentions:

Tumblr

Jul 24
120

shortformblog:

brooklynmutt:

Tumblr Posts Start Memes and Win Jobs

Read: NYTimes

Or the story of how Stacy Lambe left DC and scored a dream job. Or the story of how BuzzFeed realized what everyone already knew.

Apr 10
109

3 Tumblrs that you should be wasting time on if you’re not already:

Dec 06
1371

The 90 Best Tumblr Blogs Of 2011 »

buzzfeed:

mattstopera:

My year end list of the best blogs on Tumblr!!!!

Did you make the list? 90 blogs out of more than 36 million is approximately 1 in 400,000.

And being 1 out of 90 is approximately awesome. Thanks, Buzzfeed!

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Sep 14
296

fastcompany:

Have you ever wondered how Tumblr was born? Wonder no more! We just uploaded some fresh footage to our “Make Your Move” series on innovative entrepreneurs. Let the founder of Tumblr, David Karp tell you himself how it all came together, what inspires him, and what’s next for Tumblr.