Tumblr is a blogging platform with some social media-style features, focusing on sharing art, photos, audio, video, and other media. This article explains Tumblr, how to sign up and what it costs, and how Tumblr compares to social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter).

Tumblr combines microblogging focused on posting text and multimedia with some aspects of social media. Content posted on Tumblr is generally longer and richer than that shared on other sites.

In this way, Tumblr is more like Blogger or Medium, more focused on creating a personal page. Tumblr posts can include text, photos, video and audio, live-streamed content, and more. Because of its multimedia focus, Tumblr is often used by writers, artists, musicians, and other creatives to share their work.

Users can comment on posts. Tumblr makes it easy to share someone else's posts, often with comments or additional content added by the person sharing the post. Blogs can be made public or private, and users can have more than one blog.