Tumbr is quickly emerging as a major social media force. It’s being talked about in blogs, on other social media sites, and even by mainstream press.

Are you buying into the hype?

I really want to know. As an early adopter, I’ve always enjoyed Tumblr, but it was only in the past few months that it’s truly become part of our overall marketing efforts. So far, we’re seeing decent results, but it appears as if Tumblr is reaching a tipping point that is reminiscent of Twitter in late 2008.

Here’s one we created at TK Carsites.

What are your thoughts? We’re compiling a full feature post on Tumblr, but I really want to hear what you think. Do you have a tumblelog? Do you know of any that you visit often? Where is Tumblr going to be in 6 months? A year? 2 years?

Let me know and we will include your thoughts in our feature post.

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*UPDATE* Approximately 40 minutes after going down, Tumblr posted the message below on their sites. In most situations, planned outages or “changes in infrastructure” will be announced and the “Be Back Soon” message would be posted immediately.

Just when they were starting to turn some heads and draw attention from masses of people and bigger companies, Tumblr went down.

Since around 2:15 am Pacific, all blogs hosted on the site went down and as of the time of this post are still down. Their backend user interface and staff blog is also down. There has been no word yet from the company Twitter account.

Tumblr has emerged as a rising star in social media offering more functionality than Twitter, an easier and more convenient posting method than blog platforms such as WordPress, and a community element similar to Vox and Ning. Other social media sites have survived extended downtimes (Twitter is notorious for downtime) but it will be interesting to see if there is any backlash with many active Tumblr users moving the bulk of their online communications and content to their “Tumblelog”.

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