# To be honest, the closest thing to an interest feed as you describe it is
tumblr — not because it…

Like twitter, tumblr has asymmetric following and a reblogging feature that
constitutes most of the content. Unlike twitter, most active…

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To be honest, the closest thing to an interest feed as you describe it is
tumblr — not because it doesn’t try to be a ‘social network’ but because it
fails so hard at being a bidirectional communication medium.

Like twitter, tumblr has asymmetric following and a reblogging feature that
constitutes most of the content. Unlike twitter, most active users keep
separate accounts for separate topics. While you are still *following*
*accounts*, it’s more like following one person or group’s curation of a topic
than it is like following a person, and some portion of the network actually
only pays attention to tags (meaning that they don’t follow anyone and don’t
look at their feed, but instead watch a topic-centered feed via the search
function). So it’s twitter without character limits.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [October 9,
2015](https://medium.com/p/ebb37f4e4cc6).

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an-interest-feed-as-you-describe-it-is-tumblr-not-because-it-ebb37f4e4cc6)

Exported from [Medium](https://medium.com) on September 18, 2020.