Microblogging

Microblogging is a form of blogging but it is much smaller ad much more mobile. There are several popular sites such as Twitter and Jaiku. It is almost the same as a blog but posts are always much shorter ( 140 characters maximum). These can be updated all the time and are designed to update people about everything that you are doing. Some people want to know exactly what you are doing and it allows you to become closer to people and find out more about them. They can also be updated from mobile phones or by text. As phone technologies are coming on faster and faster, more phones have internet and can easily access blogs and sites such as facebook, twitter and Jaiku. Twitter and jaiku are similar to each other but twitter is more popular and is the most used micro-blogging site on the internet. This could be because it is simple to use and is laid out easily but also it has many celebrity users such as Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry and even President Obama. When I was investigating Twitter, at first it just seemed to me like a whole site devoted to facebook status updates, which in theory it is. But when I looked deeper, I found that it allows you much easier to follow and find out much more information about a person and their every day lives. On facebook, status updates are not essential and they often do not change for weeks, or at least that is what it is like with me.

This is an interesting, informative video, explaining Twitter in plain english.



Jaiku is very similar to twitter but invite only instead of open to anyone to follow anyone else and I think that there is more accessible personalization on twitter and it is much easier to use.