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Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic by xxpor on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:00PM (#20679958)
Because it drives multiples of traffic?
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Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic by dageshi on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:22PM (#20680154)
Which is mostly unmonetisable by anyone other than advertising more porn. So it's not worth that much?
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Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic by marcinzm on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:54PM (#20680971)
Except from what everyone is saying and the drop in traffic people are observing it drove multiples of SFW traffic. The porn kept and drove users but they also viewed plenty of SFW content as well. You can monetize the SFW side of things.
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Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic by chipotle_coyote on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:40PM (#20687473)
As far as I know, Tumblr has never come close to being a sustainable, profitable business; it survived on VC funding until it was bought by Yahoo.
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