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Micro-Blogging Services

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Micro-Blogging Services

Twitter is most popular and most used micro-blogging and social networking service. Around 18 million users, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.

The core concept revolves around individual status updates; there is a communal chat like quality to Twitter. With the help of Twitter you can share your activities to your followers. Sometimes it’s used for explicit conversations. Tweets can be directed at specific users. Using Twitter you can build a wide network of followers and establish contacts with your online friends. The Twitter Web interface uses the Ruby on Rails framework. Here are some distinct features of Twitter.

Twitter allows you to send and read other users updates (known as tweets)
Twitter is a simple tool that helps connect businesses more meaningfully with the right audience at the right time
Twitter messages(tweets) are limited to 140 characters
All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees
You can restrict delivery to your circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default)
You can search for people by name or user name, import friends from other networks, or invite friends via email

Micro-blogging is fun and useful but is Twitter the only one? Of course not, there are Twitter alternatives. Here are some Twitter Alternatives:

Tumblr

Tumblr is a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio. Users are able to “follow” other users and see their posts together on their dashboard. Tumblr’s emphasis is on customizability and ease of use, with a relatively simple sign-up process. The “like” button, which lets one user tell another that they like his or her content, and the “reblog” button, which easily reposts content from one tumblelog onto another.
Users “follow” other tumblelogs, much like on Twitter, and their updates appear in one stream on the Dashboard. This is the interface where users can like and reblog posts, as well as the buttons to add content to their own tumblelog.

URL: http://www.tumblr.com/

Plurk

Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (known as plurks) through short messages. Plurk is considered by many to be one of twitter’s biggest competitors. Plurk’s interface shows a time line of all the posts that a user makes. Plurk has a rating system called karma. The service gives the user more karma points if he or she updates the profile information or post often on Plurk. If you spam other users or if you haven’t posted on Plurk for a while you can loose Karma points. This is a good way to prevent spamming of messages and at the same time encourage an active community.

URL: http://www.plurk.com/

Ping.fm
What if you want to use Twitter and all the other blogging services at the same time? Ping.fm might be the one for you. Ping.fm enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously. Making an update on Ping.fm pushes the update to a number of different social websites at once. This allows individuals using multiple social networks to update their status only once, without having to update it in all their social media individually.

URL: http://ping.fm/

Qaiku
Qaiku is a micro-blogging and life streaming service comparable to Twitter and Jaiku. It allows users to post short text or picture messages that other users can then comment. In comparison to Twitter and Jaiku, Qaiku has a multilingual focus, with all messages marked and searchable based on their language.

URL: http://www.qaiku.com/

Conclusion:

Choosing a micro-blogging service is like choosing an instant messenger service, you’ll always want to have as many friends as possible on single network. Twitter seems to be doing well. There are plenty of options when it comes to micro-blogging; you just need to make a right choice.

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