Blogs and microblogsWhat is a microblog?
A Microblog is an abbreviated version of a blog post. Its attraction is increasing when compared to blogs due to its ability to encourage shorter posts, which lowers users’ requirement of time and thought investment for content generation. The other important difference is the frequency of update; on average a blogger will update their blog each few days, whilst a micro blogger might post more than several updates per day

Twitter
Twitter is an online microblogging application, which provides users with the ability to communicate through the exchange of quick, frequent 140 character messages - called Tweets. Originally messages were in answer to the question “What are you doing?”the question upon which Twitter was founded, but others could be responses to other tweets, links to online resources the user found interesting, musings, or questions. . Microblogs and twitter Home Content Glossary Help Back Next