TIGERSHUNGRY

I have two Tumblrs. The first is a mess of a place where I exorcise all the bumf I like on the intertubes- I don’t care too much who reads or follows it as its just a space for me to sound off. The second however is a film poster design Tumblr with a comparatively strong following that I am keen to see do well. Although they’re on the same platform these are two very different spaces for me. However, now thanks to the launch of Tumblarity both of have been dragged into the same nonsensical and absurd popularity contest.

Tumblarity was launched around mid May and was inspired by the ‘WeFollow‘ twitter directory and is a neat little number displayed on your dashboard declaring the success of your blog. The figure is rumoured to be calculated on ‘recent’ reblogs, posts, likes, followers and the phases of the moon. Until recently I had little basis for comparison with my new numbers so didn’t pay them much attention, but having seen the figures of other people (namely those who enjoy reblogging A LOT of twilight pictures, and attempt to use tumblr to conduct long conversations across posts) I’m shocked at how badly my film design blog comes off. Lets compare…

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