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Micro blogging; A trend here to stay!

by Muzzammil Waheed November 23, 2009

First there was blogging and now emerges micro blogging concept with emergence of Facebook live feed, twitter and other lightweight/micro blogs where you can quickly log your rants, thoughts, shouts and social blah blah instantly and that to all for free.  These micro blog services enable you to keep in contact with your friends and colleagues on Facebook, twitter, typepad, tumblr, allowing you to post anything like images, videos, audio clips, and above all text. Posting on these micro blogging services is simple, easy and there are multiple ways to do that such as email, mobile applications, and anywhere from the web. Above all these micro blogging services let you customize your micro blog with hundreds of free themes and if you are a design savvy person you might want to cook up your own customized theme.

microblogging

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 as described by Wikipedia . Now let’s look at which services are available for free micro blogging and what they offer. There might be lots of them, cropping up everyday but few most popular are these.

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Twends: a Twitter explorer utility providing insight into tweeters sentiments

by Muzzammil Waheed September 26, 2009

Twends-twitter-explorer If you are interested in seeing what are the hot topics, keywords active on twitter, and what are the sentiments of people who are twittering about them, then I have the perfect twitter explorer utility for you. Twends lets you first of all search and then highlight the twitter tweets,conversations, sentiments and trends based on topics of your interest, then visualize the sentimental trends.

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