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From what I understand is was more because Tumblr had a much younger user demographic with very ineffective content reporting tools. Allowed NSFW content without a desktop opt-in function. And also being bought by Yahoo who wanted to cash in on Tumblr advertising probably played a huge role in it too.

Twitter skews older, requires desktop opt-in for NSFW content, and (before Musk) had decent content reporting functions.

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Do you have any information about this? Where did you hear this? I'd always heard it was because some people at Apple used Twitter, but nobody used Tumblr, so Tumblr didn't get a free pass from arbitrary torment.

No sourcable information on it. More so just experience and mumblings around Tumblr since I've been on there since 2011.

Do you have any information about this? Where did you hear this?

From news links and comments here on this site, especially around 2018 when Tumblr was going through repeated App Store rejections. I think people, including myself, infer it from this information:

1. Apple executives like Phil Schiller used Twitter for years.

2. Apple bought advertising on Twitter.

3. https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-le...

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