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Microblogging allows users to publish brief text updates, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group chosen by the user. In addition to short text messages, Microblogging websites generally allow posting of Micromedia such as photos or short audio or video clips.

The content of a micro-blog differs from a traditional blog in that it is smaller in actual size. A single entry generally consist of a single sentence, one image or a short (ten-second) video. 

The messages can be submitted to the Microblogging website by a variety of means: through a web connection, or by text messaging (mobile phone), instant messaging or email.

The short text messages often contain [[Hyperlink]]s to other [[Web page]]s. Because of limitations on the number of characters that can be put in the text message, [[URL Shortening]] is often used to obtain a short link that will redirect to the longer [[URL]].

==Main Microblogging Services==
*[[Twitter]]: the biggest Microblogging service, launched in June 2006
*Plurk has a timeline view which integrates video and picture sharing
*Pownce integrated micro-blogging with file sharing and event invitations (but shut down in December 2008)
*Jaiku
*identi.ca has the particularity of not locking-in user data and supports [[OpenID]] and OpenMicroBlogging

Leading social networking websites such as [[Facebook]], MySpace, [[LinkedIn]], and XING also have their own micro-blogging feature, known as Status Updates.

==Related Services==
Services such as Ping.fm will send out your micro-blog to multiple social networks.

Services such as Socialthing and Profilactic will aggregate micro-blogs from multiple social networks into a single list.

==See Also==
*[[Blog]]
*[[Social Networking]]

==External Links==
*Wikipedia article about Microblogging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

[[Category:Social Media]]