Today we continue our primer series with a brief overview of microblogging. (Alas, I could not get it down in 140 characters.)
Microblogging is a form of communication that allows users to send brief text, photos or audio clips to people who have agreed to receive such updates, aka “followers” or “subscribers.” The updates can either be completely public or limited to a restricted group chosen by the user. Or as one microblogging fan put it: “For users of Facebook, just imagine a site with status updates but no photos, vampires or scrabulous.”
People use microblogging services for both personal and business reasons, just like traditional blogging. But microblogging sharply differs from traditional blogging in both its speed and its brevity.
There are a number of free microblogging services available. Among the best known: Twitter, where the 140-char
acters-or-less updates are known as “tweets.” Twitter users have a number of options for sending or receiving updates, including the Twitter Web site, SMS, RSS, and applications such as Twhirl. (read more…)
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