Tumblr’s new 404 mascot, the Tumbeast, is beating Twitter’s fail whale by a landslide in a popularity contest at This or That.
Users prefered the drooly Tumbeasts, created by Matt Inman of webcomic The Oatmeal, over the fail whale, 84 percent to 16 percent. (The fail whale still has four times as Read More
Tumblr has a new mascot—the Tumbeast.
Tumblr has been drowning in its own popularity lately, reminded users of Twitter’s frequent outages in the early days.
But Twitter has a lovable downtime mascot, the “fail whale’ drawn by artist Yiying Lu, which has had an article in The New York Times Magazine and has Read More
Service over at the local blogmonger Tumblr has been sputtering over the past month or so.
But the site’s error page, an old-fashioned flip board that says “We’ll be back shortly,” is nowhere near as cute as Twitter’s fail whale.
Adam Hemphill, a San Francisco developer who works for Wired, createdRead More
Twenty-four year old Tumblr founder and notorious good quote David Karp posted a heartfelt apology on the Tumblr staff blog, finally visible this morning after the entire site was down for more than 24 hours.
Yesterday’s outage prompted annoyance that turned into disbelief and then outrage, as Tumblr’s nine million users yearned Read More
