Microblogging

Services such as Lifestream and Snapchat will aggregate microblogs from multiple social networks into a single list, but other services, such as Ping.fm, will send out the microblog to multiple social networks.^{[citation needed]} Services such as Instagram and Whatsapp showcase 'status update' features for users to quickly engage with one another ^[10][11]

Non-Chinese microblogging services, such as X (Twitter), Facebook, Plurk and Tumblr are

Several studies have tried to analyze user behavior on microblogging services. They include extensive studies on Twitter in 2009, by researchers at Harvard Business School and at Sysomos.^[12][13] Results indicated that for services such as Twitter, a small group of active users generate most of the activity.^[14] Sysomos' Inside Twitter survey, which was based on more than 11 million users, showed that in 2009, 10% of Twitter users accounted for 86% of all activity.^[13]

Twitter, Facebook, and other microblogging services have become platforms for marketing and public relations,^[15] with a sharp growth in the number of social-media marketers. The Sysomos study shows that this specific group of marketers on Twitter is much more active than the general user population, with 15% of marketers following over 2,000 people and only 0.29% of the Twitter public following more than 2,000 people.^[13]

Microblogging has also become an important source of real-time news updates during socio-political revolutions and crisis situations, such as the

Microblogging has noticeably revolutionized the way information is consumed.[19] It has empowered citizens themselves to act as sensors or sources of information that could lead to consequences and influence, or even cause, media coverage. People share what they observe in their surroundings, information about events, and their opinions about topics from a wide range of fields. Moreover, these services store various metadata from these posts, such as location and time. Aggregated analysis of this data includes different dimensions like space, time, theme, sentiment, network structure etc., and gives researchers an opportunity to understand social perceptions of people in the context of certain events of interest.^[20][21] Microblogging also promotes authorship. On the micro-blogging platform Tumblr, the reblogging feature links the post back to the original creator.

The findings of a study by Emily Pronin of Princeton University and Daniel Wegner of Harvard University may explain the rapid growth of microblogging. The study suggests a link between short bursts of activity and feelings of joy, power, and creativity.^[22]

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Microblogging is not without issues, such as privacy, security, and integration.^[23]

Privacy is arguably a major issue because users may broadcast sensitive personal information to anyone who views their public feed. An example would be Google's Buzz platform, which incited controversy in 2010 by automatically publicizing users' email contacts as "followers".^[24] Google later amended those settings.

On centralized services, where all of the microblog's information flows through one point (such as servers operated by

Live blogging is a derivative of microblogging that generates a continuous feed on a specific web page.

Instant messaging and IRC display status but generally only one of a few choices such as available, off-line, away, busy. Away messages, which are displayed when the user is away, form a kind of micro-blogging.

In the

• Atom
• ActivityPub
• AT Protocol
• IndieAuth
• Nostr
• RSS
• Webmention
• DeSo Protocol

• GNU social
• Mastodon

Past micro-blogging services, no longer active.