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citricsquid on Dec 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tumblr just dropped out of DNS

Sponsored posts, premium themes, promoted posts. Pretty sure they're far from profitable, but they're bringing some revenue in.

http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-make-money

http://www.businessinsider.com/tumblr-revenues-2012-9

cft on Dec 13, 2012 [–]

If they are not profitable, it means that the downtime is actually improving their financials...;)

ChuckMcM on Dec 13, 2012 | [–]

Chuckled at that, given their scale I'm sure they are already at fixed rates for colo space and bandwidth.

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