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Understanding Tumblr followers

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Understanding Tumblr followers

One of the things that makes Tumblr such a unique system is, it's not only a publishing platform, but it's also, in it's own way, a social network of sorts, and that's where the follows come in. In this movie, I will be discussing the Tumblr follower system, and how you can use it to both grow your audience, and get more content for you to consume as well. When you're logged in to Tumblr, and you're viewing the Dashboard, you are automatically going to see the people that you follow in your stream. This is just the same that you would see in like a Twitter stream, or a Facebook News Feed, or whatever it might be. When you are a new user logged in to the Tumblr Dashboard, you are going to see this welcome message here at the top, and it's going to tell you that you should follow atleast five people. They give you this suggestion so that you have different bits of content to pick from as you scroll through your stream. In this case, you are already subscribed to the Tumblr staff, but…

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