John Battelle’s Tumblog: You Know What’s Also Interesting About Tumblr

John Battelle’s Tumblog: You Know What’s Also Interesting About Tumblr:

johnbattelle:

…is that you can’t see how many people folks follow, or how many people follow them. That is an interesting shift in social mores ….. compared say to Twitter. I wonder if Tumblr has thought about a widget that would allow people to declare that information publicly. For the early bloggers, that…

This is what I miss most using Tumblr. Love the speed and the cruft-free environment. Don’t dig on the feeling of distance. Getting “noted” is nice. Reblogging to add a more nuanced comment? Maybe this is an old school mind not fitting the new-school space?