The Pros and Cons of Tumblr
Pros:
Community: The best thing about Tumblr is its built in community. With most standard blogging platforms you have to build your own
following before you start receiving feedback from readers. With Tumblr you can post one picture, and if it’s interesting enough you will instantly receive feedback from the community.
Customization and Asthetics: You have the freedom to customize your Tumblr however you want. If you’re a web designer you
can design your own theme or you can choose from the endless number of free and paid themes out.
Visual Media: Tumblr is great for artists, designers, and photographers who do not need words to describe their work. On Tumblr you can just post a picture, tag it with the proper keywords, and gain tons of feedback without the need of a long form article. The fashion community has really embraced Tumblr as its virtual runway.
Easy to Use: Compared to platforms like WordPress, Tumblr is dead simple. It’s visually appealing, easy to set up and customize, and you can start posting within minutes.
Marketing: Easy to share images and other content that relate to / represent your product.
Formatting: Excellent set of templates made by world-class web designers are available for free.
Post Versatility: You post whatever you like Photos, Videos, Text, Audio files, Links and add them to your conversations.
Mobility: Easy mobility options, You can post through email, phone, and even by a SMS.
Available Applications: Excellent Mobile apps available for Android, iOS platforms.
Cons:
Young Community: Tumblr is very popular with teenagers and young adults so there is a very young atmosphere, which could be hard for older people to delve into.
Finding People to Follow: Like Twitter you follow friends and people that interest you, but it’s really hard to find people to follow. There’s no directory nor does every Tumblr page show who a person follows like on Twitter.
Long Posts: Tumblr’s content is meant to be quickly published and consumed, but some blogs have very long posts.
Unable to Self-host: You can’t self-host so if Tumblr goes down, your site goes with it.
No Private Messaging: You could not privately message fellow blog users like you do on Twitter.
Contacts: You have no option to import your address book from your phone or computer.
RSS: The RSS Import Option was removed from Tumblr
Post Limit: There is a limit how much you can post per day (you can upload only one audio file per day).
Community: The best thing about Tumblr is its built in community. With most standard blogging platforms you have to build your own
following before you start receiving feedback from readers. With Tumblr you can post one picture, and if it’s interesting enough you will instantly receive feedback from the community.
Customization and Asthetics: You have the freedom to customize your Tumblr however you want. If you’re a web designer you
can design your own theme or you can choose from the endless number of free and paid themes out.
Visual Media: Tumblr is great for artists, designers, and photographers who do not need words to describe their work. On Tumblr you can just post a picture, tag it with the proper keywords, and gain tons of feedback without the need of a long form article. The fashion community has really embraced Tumblr as its virtual runway.
Easy to Use: Compared to platforms like WordPress, Tumblr is dead simple. It’s visually appealing, easy to set up and customize, and you can start posting within minutes.
Marketing: Easy to share images and other content that relate to / represent your product.
Formatting: Excellent set of templates made by world-class web designers are available for free.
Post Versatility: You post whatever you like Photos, Videos, Text, Audio files, Links and add them to your conversations.
Mobility: Easy mobility options, You can post through email, phone, and even by a SMS.
Available Applications: Excellent Mobile apps available for Android, iOS platforms.
Cons:
Young Community: Tumblr is very popular with teenagers and young adults so there is a very young atmosphere, which could be hard for older people to delve into.
Finding People to Follow: Like Twitter you follow friends and people that interest you, but it’s really hard to find people to follow. There’s no directory nor does every Tumblr page show who a person follows like on Twitter.
Long Posts: Tumblr’s content is meant to be quickly published and consumed, but some blogs have very long posts.
Unable to Self-host: You can’t self-host so if Tumblr goes down, your site goes with it.
No Private Messaging: You could not privately message fellow blog users like you do on Twitter.
Contacts: You have no option to import your address book from your phone or computer.
RSS: The RSS Import Option was removed from Tumblr
Post Limit: There is a limit how much you can post per day (you can upload only one audio file per day).