Microblogging (or Micro-Blogging) is nothing but just another form of blogging. The term "Micro" emphasizes that it allows only a brief texts or short messages to be posted or broadcasted. In addition, microblogging entries can be submitted on websites as well as over mobile services like SMS, MMS or Instant Messaging.
Wikipedia describes micro-blogging as:
Micro-blogging or Twittering is a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates (say, 140 characters or fewer) or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, MP3 or the web.
Micro-blogging. (2009, January 18). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:43, January 20, 2009,
from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Micro-blogging&oldid=264933489
Plurk, Twitter, Identica, Tumblelog, Jaiku, and Sideblog are now the top microblogging services. However, some leading social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn also provides microblogging feature which is known as status updates.
Immediacy and portability are the keys of microblogging. The small size posts can be submitted and read on a variety of devices from personal computer with broadband internet connection to a mobile phone with slow wireless data connection.
Although some microblogging services are now support multimedia content such as photos, audio or video clips, most of the broadcasts are posted in text. And as in traditional blogging, microblogging allows users to subscribes and get updated on other people's microblog. Short comments on a person to person level are also supported on some microblogging platforms.
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