microblogging

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Twitter can be described as a microblogging platform, and generally Tweets answer the question, "What are you doing?".

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  • The disadvantage of microblogging is the tendency toward microthinking coupled with hairtrigger reactions.
  • Not that I care much about business, but IBM has put together a suite of tools for business people to use, that includes chat, microblogging, and 3D virtuality. —  World of SL
  • I'll talk about the evolution of video microblogging, the types of communities they serve, the main feature sets, and how you and use them to build your community. —  PodCamp Toronto - invite key 'canuck'
  • I don't think that microblogging will be the next step from blogging, but more of an offshoot, and more related to social networking than blogging. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
  • Twitter has been described as a lot of things -- microblogging, instant messaging for the masses, the new search -- but one thing Twitter is great for is quickly networking to other like-minded people. —  ClickZ News
 

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