All Hail Microblogging , What Makes Twitter Message System Work?

To understand what microblogging is, you simply have to look at what people are doing when they wake up in the morning, when they go home from work or school, and right before they snooze at night.

If blogging was the in thing in the nineties, net people of today are too busy sharing thoughts, interesting new websites and movies and whatnot through Twitter and other microblogging stations on the Internet.

It’s more than a fad. Social networking websites have sprung another innovation called Twitter. This time, Twitter is hailed as one of the most efficient and eye-catching new ways to drop thoughts, feelings and messages across the Internet for friends (and strangers) to see. Of course, there are other contenders for the title of “most efficient microblogging tool ever created”.

Tumblr and Plurk are close competitors of Twitter, boasting more efficient message systems and more interesting Tumblrs and Plurkers. For those who prefer that their links do the talking, and talking, and talking, people have Del.icio.us to thank, and of course, the indubitable Digg network.

What makes microblogging so enticing even to new users? Thoughts are short - sometimes only a few words long. Blogging makes the task tedious- you just want to drop a few words here and there, and you want someone to respond with something useful, funny and witty.

That’s what microblogging is about. Tasted a new dish at a swanky new restaurant? Twitter it. Feel alone and unwanted? Bring the feeling over to Plurk and watch the community pat your back. Found an insane new website with a lot of flash movies? Make sure that you put a bookmark on Del.icio.us.

Aside from the user-friendliness, you also have the business-friendliness of these websites. Twitter boasts more than a million visitors a day, which translates to more than 90 million dollars in earnings. Now that’s a big figure for something as seemingly simple as “electronic bits of paper for friends and family”.

Wolves have smelled blood and are moving in fast. Clones throughout the World Wide Web are now offering more and more services, and again, more than what the others are offering. Addicted to sharing? No worries! Some websites even provide people with online tracking tools to make sure that no blog post, no new photograph or no new Twitter entry is left unread. All of these information and tracked, systematically packaged and delivered to a user’s homepage to make sure that all “friends” are monitored ala Orwell’s 1984.

Creepy? Some people think so, but media consultants everywhere placidly placate people by saying that this aggregation is just a phase in the microblogging revolution. Aggregation makes other services unique and allows networks to have a symbiotic relationship with each other (let’s make money together!).

Sharing has just gotten more complicated. With more features and shinier new offers, people are finding it hard to stick to just one social network or one microblogging website. Some have three, while some are online for most of their waking time, keeping up with more than ten.

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