Micro blogging; A trend here to stay!
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.
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.
- Blogging methods : Email, SMS, web browser, Third party apps web and mobile apps
- Post types : Text, links
- Customization and personalization with themes:
- Open source with API
- Blogging methods : Email, web browser and mobile apps, Facebook,
- Share text, links, images, videos, audio clips
- Customization and personalization : Two design themes available for free.
- Integrated with Facebook and twitter and FriendFeed for cross posting
- Analytics
- Blogging methods : Email,SMS, web browser and mobile apps ( iPhone and other ) and bookmarklets
- Share text, links, images, videos, audio clips, dialogs, slide shows and more.
- Customization and personalization : hundreds of free themes
- Custom domains available : covert you@tumber.com into www.you.com
- Third party integration using API like AIM
- Twitter integration for auto tweet and Facebook
- Analytics
- RSS integration via feedburner
- More than one blog and contributors for free
- Share updates with web, IM, SMS and also with third party applications built with Jaiku API
- Add your web feeds, icons
- Customization with themes
- Add contacts and get updates
- Share thoughts, photos, audio and files
- Add your updates by using email
- Ability to add customized themes
- Express/Rate your current mood or current state of being
- Add your friends – Special/General
Sometimes blogging is not your goal as it requires time and effort to communicate your objective. You want to communicate something quicker and to a larger number of people. That’s where micro blogging comes in. Twitter is still one of the largest micro blog. Although you can also give a try to the above ones. But few things that seriously lag in Twitter are the constraint of word use, no embedded video or photo support, links hidden by url shortener (not allowing the user to see what they are linking into).
Conclusion:
Microblogging services are becoming more of a business or marketing tool for people. People are promoting their blog, service, product, hotel, business, events on regular basis, keeping their contacts connected with their updates. To conclude, within no time we will see micro blogging services also becoming a part of our lives just similar to what social networks have become. It is trend that will surely stay with people as it is the cheapest way to build and promote your brand online.
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