After a roughly six-hour outage, popular blogging platform Tumblr was back up Friday afternoon, bringing sweet relief to hipster bloggers, budding photographers and oversharers everywhere.
On its Twitter feed, Tumblr announced that the long, painful wait for its devoted users was over at about 2:15 p.m. ET.
"Tumblr is back online - a full postmortem regarding today's service interruption will follow," the post read.
The outage started in earnest shortly before 8:30 a.m. Friday, according to Web tool Down Right Now. Its report was based on official announcements and feeds, plus user reports on Twitter and directly to its creators.
