Last year on my previous blog, teaching. mrbelshaw.co.uk, I wrote a very short 'microblog' post entitled Please don't vote for this blog! about the Edublog Awards.— dougbelshaw.com
Twitter allows its users to "microblog," or post 140-character "Tweets" to their individual pages.— eWeek - RSS Feeds
Then a funny thing happened; I started using Twitter as a microblog, with more frequent updates than pithy status messages on Facebook.— the world according to Jared W. Smith
Twitter is my microblog, dammit -- hell, anything I link to from my microblog should carry link credit unless * I* as the blog author decide to nofollow.— Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com
Launched in October 2006, Twitter is a "microblog" - a way of communicating publically about yourself over the internet in short sentences, spur of the moment.

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