The battle just turned ugly. TumblrOWNED!
Word on the forum is that Tumblr just mass deleted all the 30 Day Challenge tumblelogs. In other words, we just got F’d in the A. All my tumblelogs are gone.
Just a small setback, right? It seems we’ll have to use some other Web 2.0 territory to plant our flags. I’ll tell you straight up, though, if there is another “official” blogging platform or other free platform, I won’t be using it. At least not for most of my blogs. The mass creation and promotion of tumblelogs brought this upon us, and I won’t be following fellow 30DCers off a cliff like a herd of bison.
I had a feeling this would happen, and I’m sure a number of you did, too. I have to hand it to Tumblr, though. They did a great job of cleaning up very fast. I don’t know what they used to mass delete all of them, but unless they have a crew of people sifting through the latest created tumblelogs, they probably used something to detect affiliate links or similar system to detect our tumbelogs.
I know that Ed’s tumblelog is still around, but that might be because (if using human detection) it was built a bit before the tumblespam, or because his affiliate links are cloaked.
Don’t worry folks, it’s not the end of the world. Time to look for some free online real estate.
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