Tumble Dryer

Not a lifestream but assorted odd socks on spin...

the madness of the real-time Tumblr map

I am trying to discovered Tumblelogs by authors in my immediate vicinity (London, near England, if you’re interested).

So, I surf on over to the Tumblr Map where I am invited to ‘Zoom in to find Tumblelogs’.

Only I can’t ‘Zoom in to discover Tumblelogs’ because whenever I try to drill into Europe, the map keeps getting refreshed with real-time updates from Tumblers from all around the world.

Or am I missing something obvious (again) ?

Update: I managed to click ‘Zoom in’ quickly enough to interrupt the real-time update and drilled into SW London.

Tumblr answers

Bizarre - they are not merely ‘one line comments’ - they literally are answers, not publically displayed but only visible to the author via his Tumblr dashboard.

Weird.

Questions about Tumblr answers

I enabled ‘Answers’ on a previous post and, although the ‘Answer’ box is displayed, it is greyed out.

Does the ‘Answer’ box only work if the post asks a deep, probing question ending with a question mark ?

Tumblr now supports answers

Tumblr now supports ‘answers’ which are similar to short comments.

Suitable for posts that ask questions like this one although there doesn’t appear to be a way to enable answers on existing posts.

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How to find who liked your Tumble ?

OK - so two people have been kind enough to ‘Like’ something I tossed into the Tumble Dryer.

How can I find out what they liked (so I can write more stuff in the same vein) ?

How can I find out who they are to see if their Tumblr interests me ?