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Until this year personal blogging used to be the only way to communicate with your friends on the Internet. However, the information overload forced us to find alternative communication ways, and microblogging was born. Bloggers use microblogging sites like Twitter to socialize with each other.

What Is Microblogging?

Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by email, instant messages, mobile phones, or the Web. The most popular microblogging tool is Twitter. The popular social network site Facebook also has a microblogging feature, called “status update”.