Which Blogging Platform Do You Use and Why?

As of June 2014, my blogs are published via four different platforms.  That's if you don't count my Tweets (@cmoneyspinner) as a micro-blog; and if you don't include other online writing communities where my writing is published that also use blogging platforms - such as Webnuggetz (see feed below).

Out of the four different blogging applications, the one that allows me the most freedom to experiment is my Tumblr blog. The primary benefit is being able to select a free template and then being permitted to customize so that it reflects ME!  My templates of choice?

• Single A Theme :: By Storyware

Used the Storyware theme for a few years and just recently changed to the Effector Theme.  Storyware updated their version with features that were unfamiliar to me.  What I know about HTML coding is self-taught and I did not know enough to make some additional edits.  Consequently, I switched to another theme by Pixel Union and now my blog has a new look.

Another really cool thing about Tumblr is that it interfaces with my Wordpress blog.  Reblogging is encouraged. When it comes to diversity – the blogger / reading audience is truly diverse - teens to senior citizens, professionals, non-professionals, various countries and religions, well-known persons in the entertainment industry and independent artists, small businesses, major businesses, news and media, etc.

There are a few quirky things about the application, but whatever "technical difficulties" experienced during implementation and publication are written off as my inexperience and lack of knowledge.  The Tumblr Team has Support Staff or a Help Desk and they often assist me.  

• How to Use Tumblr for Business

This Wizzley page was published June 21, 2014.  In two years, Tumblr was acquired twice.  First by YAHOO!  Then Verizon acquired core assets of YAHOO and Tumblr was included in the acquisition package.

• "Yahoo Hints That $1 Billion Tumblr Acquisition Was Mostly Wasted Money." Fortune.com. Ed. Reuters. Time Inc., 29 Feb. 2016. Web. 28 Sept. 2016.

• Walters, Eric. "What Verizon's Acquisition of Yahoo Means for Tumblr and Flickr." Pastemagazine.com. Paste Media Group, 27 July 2016. Web. 28 Sept. 2016.

* As of Sep 23, 2016, my account was terminated, with explanation.  While I accept the explanation received from Tumblr Support, had they given an answer or not, I don't make it a habit of arguing with folks who are letting me use their application free!  If you let me stay, I'm happy.  If you tell me to leave, I go in peace.  Don't know what the future holds now that they are under new management.  It was a fun platform while I was there.  In that two year period of time, I set up 5 different blogs (or microblogs) on Tumblr, experimented and learned a little about HTML coding and how to customize free templates, learned about affiliate marketing, Google AdSense and AdSense alternatives and various methods of blog monetization, learned of tools and resources that provide automated and/or scheduled posting to facilitate timely blog posting, and lots of other stuff useful for an online and home biz entrepreneur to know.  It was a great ride!

As you can see on the previous sections above, my Tumblring got a little bit bumpy.  But towards the end of November, while the company was still in the process of changing owners, decided to give it another try.  Created a brand new Tumblr blog in 2017.  It was deleted.  Hey!  New owners.  In 2021, I created another Tumblr and called it Texas WIB-WAH.  Here we go again!  :)

Twitter is known for being a microblogging tool that limits the tweeters to 140 characters per tweet.  One has no other choice but to put on their Shakespeare hat and makes the best of it!

At one time there was a "buzz" that Twitter was considering increasing the character limit from 140 to 10,000.  It was being taken seriously.  Had to be because it was talked about in the Wall Street Journal.

• Koh, Yoree. “Twitter to Expand Tweet’s 140-Character Limit to 10,000.” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 6 Jan. 2016, blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/01/05/twitter-to-expand-tweets-140-character-limit-to-10000/.

When Elon Musk took over the Twitter social media platform, he abruptly pulled the plug on Tumblr.  Whereas it was simple to link out two accounts so that whenever you posted to Tumblr it also posted to Twitter, Elon Musk ... for whatever reason ... decided not to continue the relationship.

If You Would Like to Contrast and Compare - Below Are Feeds to My Other Blogs

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After you decide which platform, the next question to be answered is:

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