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Microblogs

The world's first instant global media.

Definition, listing of the most important microblogs worldwide and short webography of webarticles.

microblog,microblogging,nanoblog,miniblog,twitter,jaiku,pownce,tumblr,plurk,identi.ca
 

Definition

Microblogs are short message services of text (usually limited to some 140 characters), pics (usually limited to one per message),audio (usually limited to one fragment) and/or video (usually limited to one per message).
 
http://twitter.com http://jaiku.com http://pownce.com and http://tumblr.com were among the first services that were called microblogs.
 
A presentation of Twitter in Plain English is findable on Youtube. 
 

Listing

This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time.

general
twitter.com
jaiku.com
pownce.com
beemood.com
twoorl.com
yonkly.com
kwippy.com
microblogr.com
brightkite.com
plurk.com
secondbrain.com
 
voting statement
Microblogs are changing the world - http://www.floort.com/show.php?fid=629

related articles
http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/09/samwers-bankrolled-facebook-clone-now-twitter-clone/
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/imparable/auge/microblogs/elpeputeccib/20080117elpcibpor_2/Tes
http://observatorio.ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/artigos.asp?cod=452ENO001

other source [non fully exploited, some other microblogs mentionned]
http://www.thws.cn/articles/twitter-clones.html
http://pusangkalye.com/2008/03/30/microblogging-websites/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_micro-blogging_tools_compared.php
http://autsky.com/?p=9
http://mashable.com/2008/01/10/7-twitters-of-the-world/
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2190310,00.asp
http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Clones
http://digiapps.blogspot.com/2008/05/microblogsservices-similar-to-twitter.html

the twitter microblogs channel
http://twemes.com/microblogs

the unofficial twitter community
http://www.twittown.com/

online twitter services
http://intwition.com/ - URLs that are twittered about
http://quotably.com - a better way for following a busy twitter
http://twitter100.com - another way to look at your followers

the ultimate / quasi-exhaustive listing of twitter apps
http://www.lo-fi-librarian.co.uk/?p=878

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I wanted to add http://onhandblog.com

http://onhandblog.com is a convenient micro-blog to use from your desktop or mobile phone. It also uses URL keys so you can post directly from your bookmarks without signing in.

Michael Spivey

Last edited Sep 21, 2008 5:14 AM
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Excellent List

Excellent List.

We are going to comment about your page here tomorrow at:

http://microblogs.org

We have already posted your link, but are working to write an article about your work here.

Thank you!

Charles Crawford

Last edited Aug 19, 2008 5:16 PM
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