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Automattic paid peanuts for Tumblr. Source familiar puts it well south of $20 million.
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 12, 2019
Reminder: Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for it.https://t.co/N63c5y3MEh
.@Yahoo bought @tumblr for $1.1 billion dollars. @automattic, the owner of @WordPress, just bought it for only $3 million. What an unbelievable failure. https://t.co/CUDvNwvKsL
— Colin Sullender (@shiruken) August 12, 2019
I don't understand how one of the most popular websites on the Internet goes from being valued at $1.1 billion to ~$10 million in just six years.
— James Mishra (@rishmishra) August 12, 2019
I know companies with hardly any users, employees, or assets at all that are worth more than $10 million. https://t.co/McJObYBDRO
Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013. Verizon is now selling it for ‘below $10 million’ https://t.co/MwX9IjI982
— Hipster (@Hipster_Trader) August 12, 2019
"Verizon's desire to sell Tumblr had been previously known, but as of May, Pornhub had been the only bidder to show public interest."
— Morten @ Home (@mor10) August 12, 2019
All things considered.https://t.co/HhTMwXusEV
Yahoo bought Tumblr in 2013 for $1.1 billion. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said: "We promise not to screw it up."
— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) August 12, 2019
Analysts were surprised. The year prior, Tumblr had just $13 million in sales.
According to @danprimack, Tumblr was just sold for $3 million.https://t.co/V283QFX1QZ
GET FUCKING REKT. BEYOND FUCKING BELIEF.https://t.co/sdeNe7P1UN pic.twitter.com/2VRpWK6jeQ
— ☁️ThoseCloudyDaze☁️ (@ThoseCloudyDaze) August 13, 2019
Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress’ owner https://t.co/zNiOKDiB0h pic.twitter.com/zC1tsz8die
— The Verge (@verge) August 12, 2019
Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress’ owner for 3 million dollars https://t.co/WvYS2b6YIW
— Patricia Aas (@pati_gallardo) August 13, 2019
No plan to reverse the nsfw ban, though: https://t.co/0OXhe4boZO
— sussexbound (@sussexbound) August 13, 2019
トレンドにTumblrが出てたのでどうしたのかと思ったら
— ダリアン (@dariankir) August 13, 2019
売られてた
Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress’ owner https://t.co/diSGZZdI24 @Vergeさんから
i know i joke a lot around here. i don't take a lot of things seriously, but i say this, with complete sincerity, with complete conviction in my heart. this is the funniest fucking thing i have read all year https://t.co/iPaIHjg3Me
— maximum overboner (@maxoverboner) August 12, 2019
"Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic Inc., told the Journal he intends to uphold the adult content ban and explore ways to integrate Tumblr and Wordpress. Neither of those statements is likely to be received well by veteran users of Tumblr."
— ?? Rumble McSkirmish (@the_mckern) August 12, 2019
No. Shit.https://t.co/1lIEnq9uOy
lol Verizon bought a dud, made it more of a dud and then sold it as a dud https://t.co/X6qsmSG3mK pic.twitter.com/TS91bmpmMq
— Jonathan Brown (JB) (@JB_AU) August 12, 2019
Dear @automattic, bring back Tumblr porn https://t.co/om0ztgnuuE
— Curtis er død allerede ?️? (@cebsilver) August 12, 2019
I'm going out on a limb and saying the price is "not much" and that worst case scenario, it can upsell existing non-bot Tumblrs to the Wordpress platform. https://t.co/dVu5lk2WUf
— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) August 12, 2019
curio if this Verizon Media will cut loose other assets https://t.co/MHwFXYVnnE
— alex (PVD) (@alex) August 12, 2019
Yahoo! paid nearly $5 billion (that's five billion dollars) for Geocities in 1999.
— Colin Moriarty (@notaxation) August 13, 2019
So really, this is nothing. https://t.co/4Nce6Z9TGr
Tumblr sold for "please take this money-losing thing off our hands" https://t.co/L1X1osZjjV
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) August 12, 2019
Less than $3M is what I paid to buy Delicious! I could have bought Tumblr and had 200 employees! https://t.co/UkWCWsRuVm
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) August 12, 2019
Yahoo paid 1.1 BILLION for tumblr in 2013 and promised "not to screw it up" lol https://t.co/FlNdZ98Z7j
— brad esposito ? (@bradesposito) August 12, 2019
Tumblr sold for the cost of 2-bedroom San Francisco home in Noe Valley https://t.co/vGEZO43jGs
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) August 13, 2019
3/ Story updated: Price less than $3 million.
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 12, 2019
Thank you, Marco! Will do our best to make you proud about this next chapter for @tumblr. https://t.co/Nt2lQ3kL3T
— Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) August 12, 2019
If @tumblr gets commerce (and that’s an if) it would “likely be simpler features first”. @photomatt #WordPress #Tumblr
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) August 12, 2019
Developing: https://t.co/PInnaa5y8L
The negative differential between what Yahoo buys companies for and what it sells them for could fund entire new startups. https://t.co/3snbL7c5fF
— Aram Zucker-Scharff (@Chronotope) August 12, 2019
Actually hilarious how monumentally bungled Yahoo's Tumblr acquisition was, hoping there's a tell-all in the future. For now, I'll just hope for someone getting their hands on the price tag of this deal. https://t.co/QlTVZRACiO
— Lucas Matney (@lucasmtny) August 12, 2019
WordPress's platform + Tumblr's community (if any) = perfect match ? https://t.co/A6v3d861Uj
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 12, 2019
I love @wordpressdotcom but the UI is flaky and times out an awful lot for a large service. Tumblr's best quality was ease of use. I'm hoping Automattic listens to the people they are bringing on board. They can help make wordpress better. https://t.co/b1KY9N3gdT
— Lou Whiteman (@louwhiteman) August 12, 2019
This is pretty cool. Can’t think of a better owner today than Automattic for Tumblr’s huge creative publishing community. https://t.co/G9pVtpjKJ9
— Marco Arment (@marcoarment) August 12, 2019
Tumblr with porn: $1.1 billion. Tumblr without porn: $3 million. https://t.co/Vdm8b1zWCK
— Diego Zambrano (@workforfood) August 12, 2019
Verizon/Yahoo would've been better off just shutting down Tumblr quietly than having to live with the embarrassment of paying $1.1 billion to sell it for almost nothing just a few years later. https://t.co/MI0ANfPbah
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 13, 2019
Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1 billion and was written off when Verizon acquired Yahoo. Now it's going to be owned by Automattic, the parent company behind WordPress. At least *this* deal makes sense. https://t.co/wR0vd15DhO
— Ken Yeung (@thekenyeung) August 12, 2019
Add that to the pile of other billions vaporized by Yahoo https://t.co/rY2SM3cNw1
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) August 12, 2019
Whoa! Automattic is buying Tumblr! This is actually probably a really, really good thing for Tumblr. I’m not sure there’s a better fit for Tumblr. Congrats to all of my Tumblr fam! https://t.co/f2sdyOTB1c pic.twitter.com/NHISRSSVcB
— Amelia Gapin (@EntirelyAmelia) August 12, 2019
Quick story I’ve told before: 2010 when @tumblr and @wordpress were @ peak our platform went down @photomatt personally texted me copied his CTO and asked how they can help
— John Maloney (@JohnMaloney) August 12, 2019
?@Krogsgard “Any plans for a plugin ecosystem with @tumblr?”@photomatt “When it’s on #WordPress backend that sort of thing can be explored.”#Tumblr
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) August 12, 2019
Developing: https://t.co/PInnaa5y8L
Just wanted to add my congratulations and thank you to everyone at WordPress and Tumblr.
— David Karp (@davidkarp) August 13, 2019
Matt is a visionary, and the team at WordPress has built something absolutely foundational to the Internet. What an amazing home and opportunity for Tumblr.https://t.co/6AVXBVuUr1
Tumblr might live!! Seriously, this is closer to a sane outcome for Tumblr at long last. https://t.co/sga4pPFiUy
— Brian McCullough (@brianmcc) August 12, 2019
Yahoo bought Tumbr for $1.1 billion in 2013, directly promising not to "screw it up." Verizon buys Yahoo, bans anything that even sniffs of "adult" content... and then sells Tumblr off to Automattic for *less than $3 million*. Damn. https://t.co/fFDkTTmxbO
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) August 13, 2019
Tumbler sells for more than 99% off the original retail price ... seems like a big missed opportunity for private equity ... you could have changed some rules, trimmed fat and made a killing with this in the 1980s! pic.twitter.com/IRVBp1osKk
— sam lessin (@lessin) August 13, 2019
I think the internet and adult content seekers will be fine. Life finds a way.
— Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) August 12, 2019
If people want big policy changes here, put pressure on app stores of @Apple and @Google, no one else has any leverage. https://t.co/pYnCwAoLXP
I am extremely upset that no one told us Tumblr was for sale for an amount we could have Kickstarted https://t.co/9eNRAIhfgY
— Adrienne Porter Felt (@__apf__) August 13, 2019
It’s almost as if driving the majority of their user base off the platform by changing the terms of service completely backfired. https://t.co/8chzRKGNNk
— Glenn White (@justicar) August 12, 2019
unicorn valuations are a transfer of wealth from dumb institutionalfunds and/or public company investors to smaller venture firms and founding team members https://t.co/U12F5bRWXh
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) August 12, 2019
What do you call a company that was valued at $1 billion in 2013 and is valued at less than $20 million in 2019?
— Mike Dudas (@mdudas) August 13, 2019
A @tumblr!
<I'll be here all week, folks>https://t.co/fipsyYuZJL
Tumblr getting bought and bought again only to be neglected, watered-down, and sold for spare change instead of growing to be a real competitor to Facebook and Twitter is like exhibit A in why mergers are bad
— nilay patel (@reckless) August 13, 2019
But hey, at least the VCs got paid out
— nilay patel (@reckless) August 13, 2019
tumblr is now cheap enough that a random celebrity could've just bought the whole platform on a whim.
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) August 12, 2019
(yahoo paid $1.1 *billion* six years ago.) https://t.co/vi62VJ49zs
1/2 I’m very excited about Tumblr’s next chapter and looking forward to working with @photomatt and the entire team at Automattic.
— Jeff D'Onofrio (@jeffdonof) August 12, 2019
I’m most excited for what this means for the entire Tumblr community. There is much more to do to make your experience a better one, and I’m super
"Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends to maintain the existing policy that bans adult content. He said he has long been a Tumblr user and sees the site as complementary to https://t.co/f3CMGZHVmS. " https://t.co/V2cuzp5ATD
— Andréa López (@bluechoochoo) August 12, 2019
Nobody is better at being bad at capitalism than Yahoo. https://t.co/qHrJDz1q2S
— Geoff Thew @AniRevo (@G0ffThew) August 13, 2019
Let me fuckin find out mans bought this company for over a billion dollars and ran a community of dedicated content creators to Twitter and far beyond only to sell at a loss for an eight-figure sum... https://t.co/TCgr9RqYxR
— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) August 12, 2019
eagerly look forward to learn how much of a bath veriz-ahoo took on this https://t.co/Noh2CzJViN
— dan seifert (@dcseifert) August 12, 2019
Imagine if Tumblr had been an independent company fighting for the ad dollars that now go to Google and Facebook by default - they had scale, cultural impact, an innovative CEO, the whole deal. Instead Yahoo bought it and slowly crushed it into dust
— nilay patel (@reckless) August 13, 2019
The Tumblr community reacts to today’s news pic.twitter.com/XUkEd6Q6S1
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) August 12, 2019
hdshhshshs https://t.co/vA7nCO8pgS at least it didn’t go to p*rnh*b pic.twitter.com/gan3evZ1Zk
— deah ? (@dadblo) August 12, 2019
Automattic buys Tumblr from Verizon for reportedly less than $20 million #Tumblr #Verizon #Wordpress https://t.co/IY6J34nv29 pic.twitter.com/eAgoJwXHFC
— Neowin (@NeowinFeed) August 12, 2019
Tumblr has been sold to WordPress for $3 million. Yup, that's millions, not billions. Its previous owner paid $1.1 billion for it.
— Undoomed (@Undoomed) August 13, 2019
That's some impressive destruction of money. Maybe go easy on getting woke next time.https://t.co/6vcHy0ZtNj
Big news!@automattic buys @tumblr ("for an undisclosed sum”). #WordPresshttps://t.co/4uDTfkx724
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) August 12, 2019
https://t.co/4jflfTuIMK One to read (cntrl+F Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends) re: tumblr being sold with no intention to lift the ban >:(
— MeGaLoTrash (@megalotrash) August 12, 2019
TumblrがWordPressの運営元に買収されとる / “Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress Owner - WSJ” https://t.co/fbxtbdyXYm
— YuheiNakasaka (@razokulover) August 12, 2019
Verrrry interested to see Tumblr go back into the hands of people who (hopefully? almost definitely?) understand user-generated content is valuable in and of itself, not just as a driver for something else. https://t.co/bcIqi3GRa6
— Elizabeth Minkel (@elizabethminkel) August 12, 2019
So, yeah.https://t.co/xSROJqoJp4
— zeldman (@zeldman) August 12, 2019
Tumblr is being passed on once again.
— Tobias ᴠᴀɴ sᴄʜɴᴇɪᴅᴇʀ (@vanschneider) August 12, 2019
Wordpress aka Automattic is buying Tumblr.
I love Tumblr, and I wish it the best.https://t.co/W5jyi7AcsY
"Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends to maintain the existing policy that bans adult content." https://t.co/M0BLg7f1Dt
— Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) August 12, 2019
Scoop from @bysarahkrouse: Automattic scoops up Tumblr.https://t.co/XDoZ1Tew1d
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) August 12, 2019
Tumblr: banning adult content improves our user experience
— Ｔｏｙ Ｄｏｌｌｙ (@Toy_Dolly) August 13, 2019
Users:......
Tumblr: Hello? Are you still there?https://t.co/EwWlFlXS9E
The Tumblr tumble https://t.co/Cnngip5NoS
— Financial Times (@FT) August 13, 2019
Tumblr might live!! Seriously, this is closer to a sane outcome for Tumblr at long last. https://t.co/sga4pPFiUy
— Brian McCullough (@brianmcc) August 12, 2019
Yahoo bought Tumbr for $1.1 billion in 2013, directly promising not to "screw it up." Verizon buys Yahoo, bans anything that even sniffs of "adult" content... and then sells Tumblr off to Automattic for *less than $3 million*. Damn. https://t.co/fFDkTTmxbO
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) August 13, 2019
The negative differential between what Yahoo buys companies for and what it sells them for could fund entire new startups. https://t.co/3snbL7c5fF
— Aram Zucker-Scharff (@Chronotope) August 12, 2019
Yahoo! paid nearly $5 billion (that's five billion dollars) for Geocities in 1999.
— Colin Moriarty (@notaxation) August 13, 2019
So really, this is nothing. https://t.co/4Nce6Z9TGr
WordPress's platform + Tumblr's community (if any) = perfect match ? https://t.co/A6v3d861Uj
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 12, 2019
Less than $3M is what I paid to buy Delicious! I could have bought Tumblr and had 200 employees! https://t.co/UkWCWsRuVm
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) August 12, 2019
I think the internet and adult content seekers will be fine. Life finds a way.
— Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) August 12, 2019
If people want big policy changes here, put pressure on app stores of @Apple and @Google, no one else has any leverage. https://t.co/pYnCwAoLXP
Tumblr getting bought and bought again only to be neglected, watered-down, and sold for spare change instead of growing to be a real competitor to Facebook and Twitter is like exhibit A in why mergers are bad
— nilay patel (@reckless) August 13, 2019
tumblr is now cheap enough that a random celebrity could've just bought the whole platform on a whim.
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) August 12, 2019
(yahoo paid $1.1 *billion* six years ago.) https://t.co/vi62VJ49zs
Tumblr sold for the cost of 2-bedroom San Francisco home in Noe Valley https://t.co/vGEZO43jGs
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) August 13, 2019
Tumblr with porn: $1.1 billion. Tumblr without porn: $3 million. https://t.co/Vdm8b1zWCK
— Diego Zambrano (@workforfood) August 12, 2019
I love @wordpressdotcom but the UI is flaky and times out an awful lot for a large service. Tumblr's best quality was ease of use. I'm hoping Automattic listens to the people they are bringing on board. They can help make wordpress better. https://t.co/b1KY9N3gdT
— Lou Whiteman (@louwhiteman) August 12, 2019
unicorn valuations are a transfer of wealth from dumb institutionalfunds and/or public company investors to smaller venture firms and founding team members https://t.co/U12F5bRWXh
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) August 12, 2019
It’s almost as if driving the majority of their user base off the platform by changing the terms of service completely backfired. https://t.co/8chzRKGNNk
— Glenn White (@justicar) August 12, 2019
If @tumblr gets commerce (and that’s an if) it would “likely be simpler features first”. @photomatt #WordPress #Tumblr
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) August 12, 2019
Developing: https://t.co/PInnaa5y8L
Dear @automattic, bring back Tumblr porn https://t.co/om0ztgnuuE
— Curtis er død allerede ?️? (@cebsilver) August 12, 2019
Whoa! Automattic is buying Tumblr! This is actually probably a really, really good thing for Tumblr. I’m not sure there’s a better fit for Tumblr. Congrats to all of my Tumblr fam! https://t.co/f2sdyOTB1c pic.twitter.com/NHISRSSVcB
— Amelia Gapin (@EntirelyAmelia) August 12, 2019
Let me fuckin find out mans bought this company for over a billion dollars and ran a community of dedicated content creators to Twitter and far beyond only to sell at a loss for an eight-figure sum... https://t.co/TCgr9RqYxR
— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) August 12, 2019
?@Krogsgard “Any plans for a plugin ecosystem with @tumblr?”@photomatt “When it’s on #WordPress backend that sort of thing can be explored.”#Tumblr
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) August 12, 2019
Developing: https://t.co/PInnaa5y8L
The Tumblr community reacts to today’s news pic.twitter.com/XUkEd6Q6S1
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) August 12, 2019
I am extremely upset that no one told us Tumblr was for sale for an amount we could have Kickstarted https://t.co/9eNRAIhfgY
— Adrienne Porter Felt (@__apf__) August 13, 2019
Nobody is better at being bad at capitalism than Yahoo. https://t.co/qHrJDz1q2S
— Geoff Thew @AniRevo (@G0ffThew) August 13, 2019
Just wanted to add my congratulations and thank you to everyone at WordPress and Tumblr.
— David Karp (@davidkarp) August 13, 2019
Matt is a visionary, and the team at WordPress has built something absolutely foundational to the Internet. What an amazing home and opportunity for Tumblr.https://t.co/6AVXBVuUr1
Yahoo paid 1.1 BILLION for tumblr in 2013 and promised "not to screw it up" lol https://t.co/FlNdZ98Z7j
— brad esposito ? (@bradesposito) August 12, 2019
Add that to the pile of other billions vaporized by Yahoo https://t.co/rY2SM3cNw1
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) August 12, 2019
"Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends to maintain the existing policy that bans adult content. He said he has long been a Tumblr user and sees the site as complementary to https://t.co/f3CMGZHVmS. " https://t.co/V2cuzp5ATD
— Andréa López (@bluechoochoo) August 12, 2019
Tumbler sells for more than 99% off the original retail price ... seems like a big missed opportunity for private equity ... you could have changed some rules, trimmed fat and made a killing with this in the 1980s! pic.twitter.com/IRVBp1osKk
— sam lessin (@lessin) August 13, 2019
Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1 billion and was written off when Verizon acquired Yahoo. Now it's going to be owned by Automattic, the parent company behind WordPress. At least *this* deal makes sense. https://t.co/wR0vd15DhO
— Ken Yeung (@thekenyeung) August 12, 2019
Quick story I’ve told before: 2010 when @tumblr and @wordpress were @ peak our platform went down @photomatt personally texted me copied his CTO and asked how they can help
— John Maloney (@JohnMaloney) August 12, 2019
Verizon/Yahoo would've been better off just shutting down Tumblr quietly than having to live with the embarrassment of paying $1.1 billion to sell it for almost nothing just a few years later. https://t.co/MI0ANfPbah
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 13, 2019
1/2 I’m very excited about Tumblr’s next chapter and looking forward to working with @photomatt and the entire team at Automattic.
— Jeff D'Onofrio (@jeffdonof) August 12, 2019
I’m most excited for what this means for the entire Tumblr community. There is much more to do to make your experience a better one, and I’m super
But hey, at least the VCs got paid out
— nilay patel (@reckless) August 13, 2019
Thank you, Marco! Will do our best to make you proud about this next chapter for @tumblr. https://t.co/Nt2lQ3kL3T
— Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) August 12, 2019
Actually hilarious how monumentally bungled Yahoo's Tumblr acquisition was, hoping there's a tell-all in the future. For now, I'll just hope for someone getting their hands on the price tag of this deal. https://t.co/QlTVZRACiO
— Lucas Matney (@lucasmtny) August 12, 2019
curio if this Verizon Media will cut loose other assets https://t.co/MHwFXYVnnE
— alex (PVD) (@alex) August 12, 2019
3/ Story updated: Price less than $3 million.
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 12, 2019
eagerly look forward to learn how much of a bath veriz-ahoo took on this https://t.co/Noh2CzJViN
— dan seifert (@dcseifert) August 12, 2019
Automattic paid peanuts for Tumblr. Source familiar puts it well south of $20 million.
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 12, 2019
Reminder: Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for it.https://t.co/N63c5y3MEh
This is pretty cool. Can’t think of a better owner today than Automattic for Tumblr’s huge creative publishing community. https://t.co/G9pVtpjKJ9
— Marco Arment (@marcoarment) August 12, 2019
Imagine if Tumblr had been an independent company fighting for the ad dollars that now go to Google and Facebook by default - they had scale, cultural impact, an innovative CEO, the whole deal. Instead Yahoo bought it and slowly crushed it into dust
— nilay patel (@reckless) August 13, 2019
Tumblr sold for "please take this money-losing thing off our hands" https://t.co/L1X1osZjjV
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) August 12, 2019
I'm going out on a limb and saying the price is "not much" and that worst case scenario, it can upsell existing non-bot Tumblrs to the Wordpress platform. https://t.co/dVu5lk2WUf
— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) August 12, 2019
Welcome to @automattic, @tumblr! https://t.co/ZUQH1BzZoc pic.twitter.com/9bxC8hcCOH
— WordPress.com (@wordpressdotcom) August 12, 2019
We have big news to share today: @tumblr is joining Automattic, and we couldn't be more thrilled. Here's @photomatt's announcement (on his very own Tumblr site!): https://t.co/gcWqj6wOBO pic.twitter.com/FThTGACK7M
— Automattic (@automattic) August 12, 2019
Some news on @automattic and @tumblr: https://t.co/4b51bRhxWQ
— Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) August 12, 2019
Two great companies are joining forces as @Automattic acquires @Tumblr! Congratulations to @photomatt and the entire team on the acquisition. We are proud to have watched and supported your entrepreneurial journey from the beginning. https://t.co/r9DS4KJDug
— True Ventures (@trueventures) August 13, 2019
Rumor has it the price was $3M (million). Yahoo! paid $1.1B for it. Marissa Mayer bought it in the hopes it would bring a younger demo and traffic to Y!. It didn’t.
— Karsten Weide (@KarstenW) August 13, 2019
Verizon agrees to sell Tumblr to owner of Wordpress https://t.co/L683ZVTw6F
워드프레스가 텀블러Tumblr를 헐값에 인수 https://t.co/cP0eejO3eH 한때 각광받던 미니블로그플랫폼. 2013년에 야후가 1.1B에 인수. 하지만 포르노의 온상으로 논란을 빚다가 결국 야후를 인수한 버라이존이 매각. 매각가는 10M도 안될 것이라고.
— 에스티마 (@estima7) August 13, 2019
Wordpress bought Tumblr for $3 million today.
— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) August 13, 2019
In 2013, Yahoo! paid over $1 BILLION for Tumblr.
Oops! https://t.co/geoEqadlb0
Verizon agrees to sell Tumblr to owner of Wordpress
— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) August 14, 2019
Tumblr has faced backlash over the years for not properly monitoring pornographic content, which Verizon ultimately banned last year. https://t.co/qA9ZtIbJDs
(It might be to whoever owns W/ordpress? https://t.co/SsckcCF78y )
— HamletMachine (@Hamlet_Machine) August 12, 2019
The $3M acquisition of Tumblr would have been so much more fun if @davidkarp had bought it back https://t.co/nkVShyEIz4
— Sachin Rekhi (@sachinrekhi) August 13, 2019
i genuinely can't get over tumblr being sold for $3 million. from $1.1 billion to $3 million. the Power that blue hellsite holds.https://t.co/hnGjBBXP2m
— hannargh ? (@ignitesthestars) August 13, 2019
Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress’ owner | @verge https://t.co/4RmIS9qmlx
— Ederic Eder (@ederic) August 14, 2019
Tumblr が Verizon から https://t.co/XF6cYUjh8x (のオーナー企業である Automattic Inc.) へ売却された。お値段 $3M らしいがずいぶん安くなったもんだ。2013年にYahoo! が買ったときは $1.1B だったから6年間で1/360以下か... https://t.co/6zfGYE2aEl
— yoosee (@yoosee) August 14, 2019
"'It’s just fun,' @photomatt told the Journal. 'We’re not going to change any of that.'"https://t.co/ZfW9YF6nbV
— Impress.org (@ImpressOrg) August 12, 2019
Couldn't verify the numbers, but apparently @tumblr is sold for a stunning $3 Million!
— Abhinav (@quite_new) August 13, 2019
If I am not wrong, that's less than $1 per user on the platform!!
Wow! Price is what you decide it is!https://t.co/U85Sx17CTv
There is hope for @tumblr!!! https://t.co/Geo5NogX5g
— Romke Hoogwaerts (@mossless) August 13, 2019
#artistontwitter #writingcommunity.
— Isobel Starling (@isobel_starling) August 13, 2019
Like thousands of other creatives, I left #Tumblr when they introduced the nipple ban. Now, the site is worth peanuts. Tumblr just sold for 3 Million dollars, down from the 1.1 Billion Yahoo paid for it in 2013. https://t.co/ftx69dFPjq
I really hope that Tumblr's new owners reconsider (or at least re-write!) the adult content ban, which has had an extremely negative impact on countless communities. https://t.co/dUdoe83GBr
— jillian (@jilliancyork) August 14, 2019
automattic buys tumblr from verizon, will continue to ban porn. https://t.co/PTLl6cU0R8
— Erin Griffith (@eringriffith) August 12, 2019
Verizon has agreed to sell Tumblr to Automattic, owner WordPress. Biggest acquisition yet for Automattic. "It’s just fun,” CEO Matt Mullenweg says of Tumblr. “We’re not going to change any of that.” Scoop by @bysarahkrouse: https://t.co/1nj2ypHXPL
— Newley Purnell (@newley) August 13, 2019