Thread: microi blogging

Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size. Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links".

Micro blogging is sharing frequent and brief information in web through specified platform. Generally micro blogging services allow its users to send and read other users’ updates through text-based posts. But now this has been changed and it can be any sort of input like text, video, audio etc… Text messages are uploaded to a microblogging service such as Twitter, Jaiku and others, then distributed to group members.

Advantages of Micro Blogging:

Updates you make in micro blogging sites can be visible to community members to all users depending upon the platform you use.

Unlike with messengers were we type messages to a person (or rarely a group), with micro blogging many more people interact at the same time as they can all see your messages.

Instead of spending hours together to narrate a blog post, micro blogging platform can be used effectively to share things you wish to.

Twitter is the most popular micro blogging platform. But that’s not the only one. I have compiled few of my favouries here.
Twitter
Jaiku
Pownce
Tumblr
Soup
Streem
Chyrp.