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.
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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