Popular Blogging Site Tumblr Not Working Properly on Campus
By Ryan Greene
Tumblr is a blogging site that is gaining popularity. Unlike with other social networking sites, Tumblr allows users to be more creative through the additional customary features the site offers,
“It’s just so much more personal. Like Facebook definitely has its uses and ya know it’s great for keeping up with people, but Tumblr is just this like tool for expression,” freshman Anna von Wodtke said.
Students on campus have been experiencing technical problems when trying to load the popular blogging site, Tumblr.
Students are able to log in and update their blogs through the administrative side, but can’t go on their own blogs to view the posts they have made. They also are not able to see any other blogs on Tumblr.
It’s not just on personal laptops that Tumblr blogs aren’t loading. The same problem occurs in classrooms and in the library.
Those who use Tumblr want the problem solved so they can go back to viewing all the blogs.
“I called the Tech Center or like the Tech Help Desk and they were just like um a lot of people have called about this and we’re working on it so I don’t really know what that means. I hope they are,” von Wodtke said.
Chris Fulkerson, vice president of technology here on campus, said in an email that Elon has not blocked Tumblr and that they have contacted Tumblr to try to resolve the issue.
In an email from Tumblr Support they said, “The fact that you are getting a browser error message rather than a Tumblr error message makes it very likely that this is a network issue outside of Tumblr than a problem with Tumblr.”
Tumblr Support also emailed us again to let us know that an engineer was looking into the problem.
Phoenix14News will keep you updated on the story as we find out more.
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