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tumblelog

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From tumble + log, an early term for microblog, coined by Jonathan Gillette in 2005, based on the tagline of Leah Neukirchen's Anarchaia blog (“experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin’”).

noun tumblelogs

  1. Internet A microblog, especially one on the Tumblr microblogging service. For a concrete example, imagine you've created a Tumblelog, which is like a weblog but with many small posts of different types.

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noun microblog on Tumblr

Españoltumblr
Françaistumblr

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"tumblelog." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tumblelog. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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tumblelog. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tumblelog

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"tumblelog." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tumblelog.

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@misc{tumblelog_2026,
  title = {tumblelog},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tumblelog},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}