Microblogging

Micro -blogging is a form of blogging in which the user can publish short, SMS -like text messages. The length of these messages is usually less than 200 characters. The individual postings are either publicly or privately accessible and are as shown chronologically in a blog. The messages can usually be created and subscribed through various channels such as SMS, email, instant messaging or the web.

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Micro Video Blogging is an advanced form of micro- blogging, with the difference that the user has the opportunity to record a short video ( without sound) and then to put them on a website. Networking can be the whole thing, for example, with Facebook, Twitter, etc., where you can expand each status messages to the video application and publish it.

Services

The most famous micro-blogging service Twitter, which started in March 2006 and 2007, the "South by Southwest Web Award " in the category " blog" won. The biggest competitor Jaiku, Twitter was from Finland, which was acquired by Google on October 9, 2007. The development was set on 15 January 2012. The software has been ported to Google App Engine and is released as free software under the Apache license. Microblogging quickly found also in Germany there arose many imitators and similar services. Even on social networks like LinkedIn or Facebook, micro blogs - are created - there often called a status message. Other platforms that are let for example, the publication of pictures, videos, and chat logs beside texts Tumblr and Posterous. Also part of Google features can be counted among the micro- blogging services.

The Free Software StatusNet tool with Identi.ca as a service uses the OStatus specification (former name: Open microblogging), which enables communication between users on different servers. A fully decentralized organized micro -blogging service is developed by the Twister platform by Miguel Freitas, which, however, is still in a middle Entwicklungsstatium.

There are also micro- blogging services, which are specifically designed for use in business. These include Yammer, Communote, Chatter, Present.ly and functions within SharePoint 2013.

Micro blogs in the People's Republic of China

Twitter itself is indeed blocked in the entire People's Republic of China since 2009, the services of Chinese suppliers, however, rapidly increasing growth rates please. The major online portals such as Sina.com ( Sina Weibo ), QQ.com and Sohu.com offer micro- blogs since 2007.

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