How to Use AIM With Tumblr
Tumblr, a free online social network and blog platform, provides users with many ways to publish text, photos, videos, audio, links and virtually any other type of post to their personal blogs. Users can publish their content through the website's traditional Web interface and user dashboard, but also via email, a mobile-optimized Web interface for non-smartphone devices, smartphone applications for iPhone, Blackberry and Android devices and AOL's AIM instant-messaging client. With Tumblr's AIM integration, users can "chat" with the Tumblr servers to publish content to their personal blogs through a typical instant-messaging interface.
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Instructions
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Instructions
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Open the AIM desktop application on your computer.
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Enter your AIM username and password if prompted to do so and click the "Sign in" button.
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Click the "+Buddies" button near the top of the AIM window.
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Choose "AIM username" from the first drop-down box on the "Add Buddy" tab.
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Type "Tumblrbot" in the second box and click the "Save" button.
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Double-click the "Tumblrbot" entry in your buddy list to open a chat window with the Tumblr servers.
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Type "Hello" or any other message and press "Enter" on your keyboard.
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Type your Tumblr email address when prompted to do so and press "Enter."
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Type your Tumblr password and press "Enter."
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Type the message you want to post on Tumblr and press "Enter" to publish it.
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Tips & Warnings
You can also use AIM's standard features to send photos, links and other content to your Tumblr blog by clicking the "Options" menu in the upper right corner of the instant messaging window.
Tumblrbot works with the traditional AIM desktop application, mobile AIM applications and the AIM Web interface, but it may not work with third-party AIM-integrated products such as Google Chat.
Be aware that you are openly sending your Tumblr login information over the AIM servers.
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