microblog

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A free Twitter account lets users "microblog," that is, publish short (140 characters tops) advice, aphorisms, and status updates (known as "Tweets") to others who have subscribed to their feed.

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  • 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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