The tweet, which reads, "The recovering database cluster is online and healthy. We're incrementally opening up access to blogs while monitoring performance," comes after several hours of silence from the micro-blogging site.
I've checked on the status of my own Tumblr blog, and it appears to be intact, which is a relief considering I have nearly two years' worth of posts on the site.
Earlier today, Business Insider wondered if users would lose everything in the outage that started yesterday evening, and President John Maloney responded, "That's ridiculous." We're happy this seems to be the case.
And for everyone who was wondering today whether or not 4chan was to blame for the outage, we have it from founder Christopher Poole, a.k.a. moot, himself: It wasn't.
According to Poole, whom we e-mailed earlier for comment, "4chan has nothing to do with this. They've stated it's a database/migration issue."
The idea that 4chan would take down Tumblr is not completely unfounded -- last month 4chan users declared war on the blogging service, claiming that Tumblr users poach their memes. Tumblr responded in kind. That war didn't result in anything as bad as this most recent outage, but does point to an animosity between the two sites.