It has 140 characters of text that reports details of your home, social, or work life.

Real-time communication.

Uses cell phones or internet.

Open or closed community forum – your choice!

Social or business applications.

Uploads to micro-blog services for distribution.

WHAT IS MICRO BLOGGING?

form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. ...

Up 140 characters of text

• Short status messages

• Share details of your life

Real time communication

• Uses cell phone

• Uses internet

Social or business applications

• Informal discussion

• Open or closed community forum

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Short status messages about…

SOCIAL

•What’s up?

•I’m brushing my teeth now

•It’s a boy! Check out my ultrasound!

BUSINESS

• Schedule electrician for Monday

• Windows wrong size. Return to vendor

NETWORKING

• Meet Dr Howard & Dr Fine

• They have connections to Max Lucado. Maybe he will preview your book

Using cell or computer the spontaneous urge to communicate is now satisfied.

Socialization Networking Information

Entertainment Branding

See me and my combine at The Buck Saturday- for thecombine demolition derby!

Implementation through…

Leading Tools

Twitter

FriendFeed

Jaiku

Pownce

Over 100 micro-blog

services

Open Sources

Identica

RabbitMQ

Sharetronix

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

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Cartoonist Robert Crumb predicted Twitter in the 1960s

http://fyi.oreilly.com/2009/04/a-brief-history-of-microbloggi.html