MICRO-BLOGGING

'Micro-blogging' is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) 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.
The most popular service is called Twitter, which was launched in July 2006 and won the Web Award in the blog category at the 2007 South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas.^[1] The main competitor to Twitter is Jaiku.
Recently, however, many new services, with the same feature of micro-blogging are being born. Digg founder Kevin Rose, together with three other developers recently launched a service called Pownce, which integrates micro-blogging with file-sharing and event invitations.
The popular social networking websites Facebook and MySpace also have a micro-blogging feature, called "status update". Microblogging is expanding to Europe with frazr (a French and German Twitter-lookalike), to South Korea with PlayTalk, to China with fanfou(supporting China's most popular IM - QQ) and zuosa, and to the UK with blabto.
In May, 2007, an article counted a total of 111 Twitter-like sites internationally.^[2]

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See also

★ Blog

★ Tumblelog

★ Web 2.0

★ Thumbcast

★ Sideblog

References

1. "We Won!" March 14th, 2007 Twitter Official Blog, retrieved March 16th, 2007
2. Article on thws.cn. A Chinese site, but the article is in English. Retrieved August 22nd, 2007.

External links

★ Your Guide to Micro-Blogging and Twitter