May 2013
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Mass Instagram account deletions + the inevitable...
Summary: Many people had their Instagram accounts disabled today. But even more played a game of telephone based off of misinformation and a viral hoax that spread across at least five social platforms with instructions on how to ward off the account deletion happening to you.
As of 10PM pacific, Instagram has yet to make an official public statement, though they have privately responded to at...
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“Advertising platforms that work really well, work at scale. Tumblr has about 25...”
– One of many interesting things Marissa Mayer said during her interview alongside David Karp (!) on CNBC yesterday.
I took some (text) notes and embedded the whole video interview on an earlier post.
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Watch18 minute (!) interview with Marissa Mayer + David Karp re: Yahoo!’s Tumblr purchase, conducted by CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla.
They do a good job fending off the tired porn FUD.
summary:
Mayer: Tumblr has less porn than its peers (chew on that! -ed) Karp: Tumblr is so big, it’s easy to advertise against the billions of other posts without appearing next to porn.
Mayer also says...
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Yahoo! May 20th 2PM/5PM special event livestream...
It’s not guaranteed tonight’s Yahoo! event is all about Tumblr (after all, we just had an investor conference call all about it).
But given that it’s in New York (Yahoo! is otherwise based in California), there’s a decent chance there’ll be something Tumblr-ish going on.
Yahoo! livestream URL here: http://screen.yahoo.com/yahoo-event-155000760.html
I’ve...
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purple hazing →
This is what we, in the Tumblr business, call a welcome noogie.
continuants:
shortformblog:
kyriarchy:
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yahoo:
I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their...
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Notes from Yahoo! Tumblr announcement investor...
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Marissa Mayer using secondary Tumblr, not...
Just noticed that Marissa Mayer is using a secondary blog on Tumblr.
This is a common “wish I woulda known” issue for Tumblr noobs, and often causes problems.
Secondary blogs are when Tumblr lets you create additional blogs under your “main,” account, without having to sign-up separately for each one (unlike Twitter + Pinterest, which have rigid one-email,...
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Yahoo! tumblr investor conference call starting... →
[update: my notes from the investor call here]
Yahoo! Investor Relations / Yahoo
6am/9am eastern, May 20th.
Free stream, but you gotta email register (takes one minute)
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Just followed: http://marissamayer.tumblr.com
An imperfect science (maybe somebody is just URL squatting?), but how can you resist?
[update: Somebody asked how checked the age of the URL. I used this tool: http://www.webconfs.com/domain-age.php. There are many tools like it, it’s not necessarily the best. Checking the age of a URL (as opposed to the age of a domain) is an inexact...
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Pinterest private messaging, aka "send pins"
Now you can send pins directly to your friends and fellow pinners from the web or your phone. You can even include a message to give it a more personal touch!
In other words, private messaging.
In a world where any notification is signal, a new instrument of notification is something marketers track closely.
That’s why we’re talking about this.
Pinterest DM me so I know...
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Happy Mother's Day, Twitter
“MILFs” trended.
So many motherlovers.
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April 2013
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Pinterest fixing their activity feed. Stuff won't...
Pinterest hasn’t had a 1:1 relationship between events (Follows, Likes, Repins, etc) and notification emails for a while. This isn’t unique to Pinterest. For example, Twitter often “clusters” a group of your new followers into a daily notification email.
Where Pinterest is different, though, is that its on-site activity feed is incomplete/ephemeral. Stuff slides off the...
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Tagging usernames in Tumblr posts not reliable
Bad news (but not new news, so your life is not technically worse.): Using a tumblr name/username-as-a-tag is not a reliable way to tag/@ a user.
Tumblr search is fuzzy, it doesn’t quite do “pattern matching.” This means there are lotsa “missing” results, whether you’re searching for a username (or any other tag).
In general tagging does increase the chances...
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WatchI really hope Kalinda used a VPN and proxy server. :D
But seriously, tho… she busts so many others due to their traceable “IP address,” i was a lil bummed she did this on a network she doesn’t p0wn.
We will not speak of her hard drive name. #sideeye
/ht funkierthan
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Three Tumblr Dashboard changes (bugs?)
1) Tag (search) - is it broken/out of chronological order?
Hard to tel, coz “repetition” of items (via reblogging) is the natural order of things on Tumblr.
Update: Tumblr, via support email), has acknowledged a tag/search bug, says they’re working on it.
2) Infinite scroll hangs a lot lately
For the past week, infinite scrolling in the Dashboard has hung alot, forced me...
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March 2013
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Agencies: Pinterest update adds Twitter social...
What Pinterest is calling a new “look” is less of a redesign, and more of a new version. There’s lotsa new stuff (“related” Pins, a la YouTube, huge discovery flow), and a lot of removed stuff (bye-bye “origin” trail, a la Tumblr, pout).
Many of these changes are of interest to marketers, but this post is gonna focus on the biggest one: The Twitter social...
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Twitter's sexual favers (not sexual favors)
[Update March 20: Looks like the Sexual Favers have flamed out. Way less chatter about “favorite bots” as of March 19th]
original post:
Feelin’ on fire lately?
Think you’re a regular @robdelaney?
Sorry, baby. Those favers got a tweet in every port.
Spammers are exploiting a small inefficiency in how Twitter does rate limits/ suspends new accounts.
In general,...
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don't ask if you don't wanna know
Kalinda. What is up, girl?
OK. Well I’m gonna let you go, girl.
watching realtime site visits spike + fade at 2am is hypnotic + peaceful. but I guess there’s a whole world out there.
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meter/ your tweet/ line breaks.
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Tag-stuffing on Tumblr for SEO: don't. but let's...
unwrapping:
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Choose your first five tags wisely. For original posts (and not reblogs), Tumblr uses those first five post tags in dashboard search and tracked tags. The sixth tag and beyond can be helpful to your individual blog search and your own tag links. But tags after number five usually do not appear in Tumblr’s dashboard search or among tracked tags.
Question for unwrapping:...
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bug report: New Pinterest has broken/missing...
On January 28th, Pinterest announced a redesign (as a “test,” not pushed to all users).
(Not gonna go over all the changes here. This is more of a bug report/public service in case you’ve Googled this issue. #hero)
On the current Pinterest, as with many social platforms, you can reference other users by typing the “@” symbol and starting to type their name....
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New Tumblr Search. Everybody act cool.
[update. this page gets a lot of hits for people looking for Tumblr’s search. Tumblr search is here. Tumblr search is here. Tumblr search is here. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/search. The interface will make a a little more sense if you’re logged in, though I suspect most people searching for this are not yet Tumblr users.]
——— everything below here for Tumblr users...
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Facebook Activity Log busted/blank for...
[12:02 PM. Update with workaround.]
Here’s a workaround I got on Twitter from @raydennis + @GINGERtweetz:
Stay logged in to your personal account, visit the Activity Log url for your page: https://www.facebook.com/YOURBUSINESSPAGENAME/allactivity.
The Activity Log will be visible.
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When the going gets weird, the weirded go to Twitter to make sure they’re not the only...
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February 2013
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New Tumblr Virus. Don't click anything about free...
[Update: March 1, 2013. Just heard from Tumblr support that they know about the issue, they’re working on it.]
It’s hiding in a video player which you will try to play.
It looks like the screenshot below.l
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“…this is not cyberwar. This is not war of any kind. This is espionage, and...”
– via schneir.com
Something that’s bothered me about the Chinese hackers media frenzy is that most of them use the same security company as their expert source/commentary. Talk about a coordinated attack.
I’m not saying this company is not an expert, but many of these hacks are...
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