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Poll Time! (FFA Post #13)

Oct 24, 2010 13:32

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TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 19:38:08 UTC

How doesn't it run out of bandwidth if it stores the pics?

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 19:54:50 UTC

It's maaaaaaaaaaaaagiiiic!

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 20:37:25 UTC

You know what I mean, it's for free, there is no publicity (that I know of) and you upload the pics directly to tumblr. How do they pay for the bandwidth?

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 20:45:02 UTC

Well, they use quantserve, that helps mine data they can sell. Most likely they started by getting capital first and will later introduce adds or fees after they build a loyal fan base.

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 20:46:31 UTC

They sell your data to advertisers.

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 21:41:17 UTC

What sort of data? The e-mail?

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 21:48:37 UTC

(Heh, no idea about the email, but I suspect many social networking sites do that.)

Age, gender, location, the stuff you read and post about. Social networking sites are goldmines for market research.

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 21:53:46 UTC

I was asking because I do have a tumblr, but I never entered any of that info, only my e-mail. They have my IP, obviously, but any site can harvest IPs.

(Off-topic captcha: twincey are. Yeah, I thought it said twincest.)

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 22:03:26 UTC

I imagine they can also record what gets the most attention and log those IPs, also what terms are used to find posts, what keywords, if any attract attention, and so on.

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 22:32:20 UTC

http://www.tumblr.com/privacy_policy

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 22:31:59 UTC

I've been wondering that too. Plus you can hotlink from there and IME never get a "bandwidth exceeded" message. Even by selling info, how could they be making THAT much money without advertisements or anything?

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 22:39:12 UTC

They received 5+ million dollars in funding last year. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0421_best_young_entrepreneurs/11.htm They're doing fine. My guess on how they host is that they're using some sort of cloud, which would keep their costs down compared to physical hosting, but the details on their infrastructure aren't super public, so.

Re: TUMBLR anonymous October 24 2010, 22:40:44 UTC

SA
I forgot, they also charge for certain layouts and the like. I don't know anyone who has actually paid for any of it, but they do have "premium" services set up to assist in covering cost.

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