Tumblr to Get Portuguese Version. The microblogging platform Tumblr will soon be translated into Portuguese, its latest Brazilian hire Gina Gotthilf confirmed in an interview with the Brazilian blog Link Estadão, following her participation in the gigantic Campus Party Brazil.
It’s been known for a couple weeks that the company was particularly interested in Brazil, and it became clear it was planning to launch operations in the country when it started looking for a ‘Country Consultant – Brazil’. Not only did Tumblr publish an online offer, but its evangelist Mark Coatney and HR manager Charlie Gray both traveled to the country last week in the hope of finding the right person for the job. And it seems they did: as it is now known, the company hired the 25-year-old social media executive Gina Gotthilf to prepare the opening of its local offices. Scheduled to open doors between the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, it would be Tumblr’s first office outside the US. Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous's Ass. Richmond offices. You know what they say: Virginia is for bloggers.
Everyone's favorite (re)blogging platform, Tumblr, is getting ready for a little Southern expansion. The company, which has its headquarters in New York City, is setting up a secondary shop in Richmond, Virginia. "Why Richmond? " you might ask. As fate would have it, the company's mobile app developers and community support team are already located in the area, so adding a Richmond office wasn't such a stretch.
And we're sure the startup's recently announced $30 million round of funding didn't hurt in making that decision, either. Tumblr's chosen the amusingly named Corrugated Box Building as its Virginia home. New York staffers, including company President John Maloney, will in in Richmond to help christen the new facilities with a Tumblr meetup and press event on Thursday, January 13. Check out these images of the Corrugated Box Building offices, and let us know what you think in the comments. Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter. With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform.
Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do. Growing at over 30% a month has not been without challenges. Some reliability problems among them. It helps to realize that Tumblr operates at surprisingly huge scales: 500 million page views a day, a peak rate of ~40k requests per second, ~3TB of new data to store a day, all running on 1000+ servers. One of the common patterns across successful startups is the perilous chasm crossing from startup to wildly successful startup.
Tumblr started as a fairly typical large LAMP application. The theme at Tumblr is transition at massive scale. Site: Stats Software Hardware Architecture. Tumblr Now Has More Blogs Than WordPress.com. According to their respective websites, 4-year-old microblogging platform Tumblr now hosts more blogs than 8-year-old WordPress.com.
In January, Tumblr had more than 7 million individual blogs. At the time of this writing, the total blog ticker on its site read about three times that at 20,873,182 — beating out WordPress.com's current count by about 85,000 blogs. WordPress.com's count doesn't include sites that people host themselves with the open source software via WordPress.org, but given that the hosted service had about a four-year headstart, surpassing it in number is still an impressive feat for Tumblr.
Clearly a flood of individuals have been signing up for Tumblr lately. But top companies in entertainment and news and fashion have also recently launched Tumblr blogs. Tumblr now reaches 120M people each month. Tumblr’s quirky blogging platform and community network reaches 120 million people every month, founder and CEO David Karp disclosed at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich Monday.
Karp, citing the startup’s latest Quantcast figures, shared that the social network and blogging hybrid now sees 15 billion page views each month. Interviewed by entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, Karp talked about the company’s early growth, its decision to take the road less traveled in social networking, the unexpected advantages of building for creators, and Tumblr’s New York-centric culture. “The early growth that we saw was around creators … our first community was those creators,” Karp said of Tumblr’s initial growth spurt. “We didn’t set out to build network .. all we wanted to do was make novel tools.” Tumblr is Blowing Up - So When Will It's Business?
Tumblr Hits 20 Billion Total Posts. Tumblr has hit a major milestone — 20 billion posts — a huge increase from the 12 billion posts figure it reached in November.
"Forgot to make a big deal of this earlier, but Tumblr crossed the 20-billion-post mark Monday night," said a tweet from the official Tumblr account, with a link to Tumblr's About page, which sports a counter showing the total number of Tumblr posts. Currently, the number sits at more than 20 billion posts, 51 million of which were created today. Tumblr currently has more than 49.7 million total blogs and is due to hit the 50 million milestone any day now. The rapid rise of Tumblr in the past year has been nothing short of amazing.