Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
microblog . - noun The practice of creating and publishing brief posts (140-200 characters) on a personal blog on a microblogging Web site. Example: a “tweet” on Twitter would be a
microblog post.
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Examples
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Typically when people hear the term microblogging, they think of Twitter, Tumblr, or the now defunct Pownce.
Archive 2009-01-26 Mr. Byrne 2009
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Twitter is often called microblogging, that is, short posts of maximum 140 characters.
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Twitter is often called microblogging, that is, short posts of maximum 140 characters.
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And 'microblogging' is a newer one which I've seen more and more of.
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Studies that accuse social networks of reducing productivity assume that time spent microblogging is time strictly wasted.
Social Networks Can Make Us More Creatively Productive | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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I'm happily yakking away over on Jaiku because microblogging is beautifully low maintenance.
November 2007 2007
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So, microblogging is a useful public relations vehicle, or a place to be careful with your words as one PR pro found out recently.
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I'm happily yakking away over on Jaiku because microblogging is beautifully low maintenance.
The Web X.0 Wall 2007
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IBM also has something they call microblogging, but it's really more akin to Facebook status updates than a system like Socialtext Signals.
ReadWriteWeb 2009
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Because these updates are so short, Twitter is sometimes called a microblogging tool.
unknown title 2009
ecbrenner commented on the word microblogging
Writing a post on a blog that limits word count, such as Twitter (which allows just 140 characters).
January 8, 2009