Micro-blogging is basically a form of multimedia blogging, which is a combination of blogging and instant messaging. Blogging allows users to create short messages to update their status and allows up to 140 characters to be used in their update. Micro-blogging also has some limitation these can be limitations in characters, and it is also prone to take off the topics easily. To do blogging there are numerous websites which you can visit, such as Jaiku, Twitter and Tumblr.

Twitter is the most widely used Micro-blogging site in the world. Twitter allows learner to be more aware of the various issues happening around the world. It also allows learner to keep in touch with people, which means they can discuss information online.  Jaiku is another famous micro-blogging site, it allows learner to see another persons presence online which means a learner can do real time communication with the other users.

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Micro-blogging on Twitter

References

(Micro-blogging)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

http://webtrends.about.com/od/glossary/g/micro-blogging.htm

(Limitations)

http://seodailydose.blogspot.com/2008/12/micro-blogging-advantages-and.html

(Jaiku)

http://www.jaiku.com/

(Picture used)

http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/to-blog-or-not-to-blog.jpg

(Video used)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

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In 2004 Facebook was launched by a student from Harvard University called Mark Zuckerberg, since then its continuously increasing its popularity worldwide. Facebook is now used in many countries around the globe and accessible in many different languages for the users . Since its launch in 2004 Facebook is growing rapidly, and it is leaving its competitors far behind in social networking. Here are some statistics which will blow you AWAY. Facebook has a 50 million users lead which has grown to about 70 million over the summer 2009. It has been estimated that facebook will grow more over the next few years and will have a gap of more than 50 % from its next competitor Twitter and MySpace. Facebook users now spend more than 6 billion minutes each day worldwide. Facebook currently has 300 million active users, where 19 million or over active users are from the UK itself.

For more statistics on Facebook visit here:

http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics.

Also Visit:

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/01/11/a-collection-of-soical-network-stats-for-2009/

For some intresting facts. CHECK THIS VIDEO OUT!!!

Video on STATS!!!!

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