{"id":365851,"date":"2019-09-09T00:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/?p=365851"},"modified":"2022-10-03T06:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:15:12","slug":"tumblr-has-a-new-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/tumblr-has-a-new-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumblr Has A New Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I usually do, I was on a plane catching up on my podcasts, listening to a WordPress news when they casually mentioned that “… Automatic, the company that produces WordPress, has purchased Tumblr from Verizon on August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What? Did I hear this correctly? How did I missed this? Wow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It woke me up! – Almost immediately, I “rewind the tape” — (big laugh) — meant to say replayed the bit to make sure I heard this correctly and yes – I did! They further stated that: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“they bought the company for less than $3 million dollars a far cry from the $1.1B that Yahoo paid for it in 2013, and that the plan is to move move the platform into WordPress while keeping the interface the same”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WOW!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Yes – That is one word I can honestly use to describe my surprise! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of August 12, 2019, Wikipedia reports that Tumblr<\/a> hosts over 475 million blogs and less than 400 million monthly users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am happy that Tumblr and their dedicated team is getting a new home. I have always liked their micro-blogging platform. Hopefully they will find a way to thrive once again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I usually do, I was on a plane catching up on my podcasts, listening to a WordPress news when they casually mentioned that “… Automatic, the company that produces WordPress, has purchased Tumblr from Verizon on August 2019. What? Did I hear this correctly? How did I missed this? Wow! It woke me up!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[571,570,569],"class_list":["post-365851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-tools-resources","tag-ma","tag-tumblr","tag-wordpress"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":446,"label":"Tips, Tools & Resources"}],"post_tag":[{"value":571,"label":"M&A"},{"value":570,"label":"tumblr"},{"value":569,"label":"WordPress"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblrAutomatic.jpg",800,600,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":446,"name":"Tips, Tools & Resources","slug":"tips-tools-resources","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":456,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":83,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":446,"category_count":83,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Tips, Tools & Resources","category_nicename":"tips-tools-resources","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":571,"name":"M&A","slug":"ma","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":581,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":570,"name":"tumblr","slug":"tumblr","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":580,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":569,"name":"WordPress","slug":"wordpress","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":579,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":48,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}