Is there anything such as Tumblr addiction?.  We think so, since Reblogs, Likes and Followers, plus an extremely user friendly interface, that allows publishing in terms of a minute, makes Tumblr more a social network community than a simple microblogging platform.  Even with the tumblarity function is currently offline, Tumblr users get obsessed trying to increase and check several times a day wheter someone has started to follow, making How Do I get More Followers on Tumblr one of the most common question on the internet.  Also, trends like 30 day challenges and Tumblr Trains help with this addictive behavior.
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Tumblr’s expansion plans are already taking place.  While keeping their headquarters in New York City, the company opened new offices in Richmond,  Virginia.  It seems to be that their mobile developers and community support team are already in the area, so setting up new offices there seems like a good idea.

The specific building Tumblr chose to rooms was the Corrugated Box Building.  The building design is not a novelty for tech companies, seems like a renovated warehouse.

The official inauguration will take place on January 13

Tumblr New Office Pictures.

What is the Tumblr Train?.  Well, I won’t lie you, it’s just a scheme that Tumblr users do once in a while with the only purpose of increasing the followers figure.  So no, the point here is not to follow someone else because you are interested in what he/she says, you just follow or reblog any kind of post type they wrote down and that’s it. This is one of the method that answers the question How Do I Get more Followers on Tumblr?.

Warning: Only Tumblrs that are already popular can start the follow train, otherwise noone will know of it.  And no, it doesn’t matter whether it is a Thursday or Tuesday.

If you’ve been checking your Tumblr lately, you may wonder what is that new widget in your dashboard.  It’s actually a contest being run by Photojojo and sponsored by Tumblr.  Just for the month of july you will be able to submit your own best photos to Photojojo Daily Pick Pick, and if chosen, you will be able to choose a gift from their store.  Besides getting recognition, since your picture will be there for a day if chosen (and reblogged plenty of times).

To submit the photo, just clic on post your pic in the page provided.  Remember, in order to be eligible, the photo must be related to Today’s Topic, whatever that is.

Tumblr added high resolution pictures option a 1 year ago. This gives you the chance to automatically add a link to a photo in your photo post pointing to the original sized version of the picture you uploaded to Tumblr.   If you are currently doing this and even enable the option for Tumblr High Resolution Pictures but nothing happens, it means you are missing the code needed in your theme’s html.

How To Add Tumblr High Resolution Pictures to your Tumblelog.

1. First, enable the option in Customize >>> Advanced .  Check Enable High-Res Photos (photos without a click through will automatically link to a high-res version).
2. Now go to Customize >>> Theme >>> Custom HTML and locate the following tag {block:Photo}
3. Now insert the following code after the <img tag


{block:HighRes} {/block:HighRes}


4. Save and Close

Another Tumblr Tip that according to the theme, it could be just easier or difficult to tweak.  If you want your Text Header (meaning your Tumblr name or main Title) to be replaced for an Image, keeping the image clickable, follow these steps:

Replacing The Text Header for an Image Header on Tumblr.

1. First of all, you need to put an image that fits the size of you current Text Header, if you want to make the space bigger, you will have to download and edit the .css file of your tumblr theme.  I suppose you don’t want to go through all that now, so just choose an image of the right size and if your theme goes crazy, choose something smaller until it works.
2. Go to Customize >>> Theme >>> Use Custom HTML
3. Using control+F in your browser look for the following code to find your text header title

<div id=”title”><a href=”/”>{Title}</a></div>

4. Upload your image here , it’s important to upload your logo header here and nowhere else since you guarantee that is not going to be disappear overnight.
5. Replace <a href=”/”>{Title}</a> with the following code <a href=”"><img src=”your_image_url” /></a> .  Now paste and replace the image path url that you got from the uploader in your_image_url.
6. Preview your theme clicking on preview in the edition window, if the image fits right, click on save and you are done.

Additional Tumblr Tips for your Image Header.

• Most of the well coded themes have a conditional variable that allows you to leave the image url path in the inlice css code try to find it looking for the following code in your html:

<meta name=”image:Logo” content=”"/>

Now place the image url path within the content tag, between the “”. Example > content=”http://static.tumblr.com/image_header.png”

• Most of the well coded themes now have an option to upload the image header through a form.  You can find it going to Customize >>> Appereance >>> Logo Image.

In its third financing round, Tumblr managed to raise $5 million more from its current Venture Funders, Union Venture and Spark Capital.  Tumblr’s current funding is now around $10 million, and the microblogging platform is beginning to look for ways to start generating income after 3 years of growing both in users and impressions.

Now it seems about time for Tumblr to begin with some methods to generate income, and according to founder David Karp.  The company has started rolling out a series of paid services.

Basically after dropping the idea of a “Tumblr Plus” which would have been a premium Tumblr service with advanced features not available to free users (these new features are now available to everyone, for instance static pages).

The first of these paid services seem to be the premium themes, both created by Tumblr itself or the users (in this last case they take a %30 cut from the purchase and they go from from $9 to $49 each one).  Other income generating options include buying stickers and spots on a directory of recommended blogs.  Another potential revenue stream could be a feature that lets users order prints of images they see on tumblelogs, there has been a small experiment on this.

You can take a look at what one of  Tumblr’s investors has to say about this.

The graphic you can see below shows clearly how astonishing Tumblr’s traffic growth has been since its birth.  As with many other web 2.0 services it hast yet to be known if it can actually make money.

Source: MediaMemo.