Microblogging is a form of blogging. A microblog differs from a customary blog in that its content is naturally much smaller, in both actual size and aggregate file size. A microblog entry could consist of nothing but a short sentence fragment, or an image or embedded video.
As with traditional blogging, microbloggers post about topics ranging from the simple, such as "what I'm doing right now," to the thematic, such as "sports cars." Commercial microblogs also exist, to promote websites, services and/or products, and to promote association within an organization.
Usage
Several studies, most notably by Harvard Business School and Sysomos, have tried to analyze the usage behavior of Microblogging services.Many of these studies show that for services such as Twitter, there is a small group of active users contributing to most of the activity.Sysomos' Inside Twitter survey, based on more than 11 million users, shows that 10% of Twitter users account for 86% of all activity.
Twitter, Facebook and other microblogging services are also becoming a platform for marketing and public relations, with a sharp growth in the number of social media marketers. The Sysomos study shows that this specific group of marketers on Twitter is much more active than general user population, with 15% following more than 2,000 people. This is in sharp contrast to only 0.29% of overall Twitter users who follow more than 2,000 people.
Microblogging for organizational usage
Microblogging has the potential to become a new informal communication medium, especially for collaborative work within organizations. Over the last few years communication patterns have shifted primarily from face-to-face communication to more online communication in email , IM, and other tools. However, some argue that email is now a slow and inefficient way to communicate. For instance, time-consuming 'email chains' can develop, whereby two or more people are involved in lengthy communications for simple matters, such as arranging a meeting. The 'one to many' broadcasting offered by microblogs is thought to increase productivity by circumventing this.
These are the major sources of Micro Blogging.
• AQA2U
• Blog
• Communote
• Comparison of micro-blogging services
• Cyn.in[19]
• Finger protocol
• FriendFeed
• Google Buzz
• Identi.ca
• ImaHima
• Jaiku
• OpenMicroBlogging
• Ping.fm
• Plurk
• Posterous
• Present.ly
• Prologue
• Qaiku
• StatusNet
• Seesmic
• Sideblog
• Thumbcast
• Traction TeamPage
• Tumblr
• TXTMob
• Yammer
Sources: Microblogging
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