# Michael Tsai - Blog - Verizon Sells Tumblr to Automattic - Host: [mjtsai.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/mjtsai.com/) - Saved: August 14, 2019 (2019-08-14T11:20:30Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/41dee20f71f3/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/41dee20f71f3.json ## What Jamie wrote At this point Tumblr the company has long ceased to exist. Tumblr the Community, finding a home at Automattic with WordPress is by far the best outcome that could have ever happened for it. Mullenweg and team will treat this with care and respect. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT113: Weekly Thing #113 / Aug 17, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/113/), Notable Links 📌 ## Same host - [Facebook’s “Protect” Feature —Michael Tsai](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4f442db71093/) (mjtsai.com, February 15, 2018) - [Michael Tsai - Blog - Malicious Shortcuts](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e7af466c25ec/) (mjtsai.com, January 31, 2019) - [Michael Tsai - Blog - Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/532391197f63/) (mjtsai.com, August 25, 2019) - [Michael Tsai - Blog - Oculus to Require Facebook Accounts](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fd5659eba367/) (mjtsai.com, August 23, 2020) - [Michael Tsai - Blog - iSH and a-Shell vs. the App Store](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8f5f9f240f0c/) (mjtsai.com, November 12, 2020) ## Saved the same week - [How YouTube Radicalized Brazil - The New York Times](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/69850e92047d/) (nytimes.com, August 14, 2019) - [Escape rooms are very big business - Vox](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0b94a8c4a621/) (vox.com, August 14, 2019) - [Deep links to opt-out of data sharing by 60+ companies – Simple Opt Out](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/25b7eaee366a/) (simpleoptout.com, August 14, 2019) - [WARREN ELLIS LTD | This Ain’t Walden Pond, Mate](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/546ae8f35149/) (warrenellis.ltd, August 14, 2019) - [“Bicycle for the Mind” - Learning By Shipping](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6bac9821c84d/) (medium.learningbyshipping.com, August 14, 2019) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/08/13/verizon-sells-tumblr-to-automattic/