Blogging began as a very personal exercise nowadays. People, like you and I would make frequent journal entries and put them online for the world to see. Then we started linking to each other’s homepages, forming a network. These were the twilight days of blogging. Twitter was similarly birthed and just like blogging, it has blossomed early in its age. The reason why Twitter has become so big today is pretty obvious. People don’t have the time for the patience to post long, detailed entries with regularly on their blogs. Or to sustain this kind of content for a long period of time. Visitors to these blogs, similarly, don’t have the patience to read what’s written. The solution was to shorten the size of the blog and have them updated more frequently.
Everyday or every few hours, an exercise termed micro-blogging. Social networking sites such as Facebook offer a similar feature through their status field-what are you up to, how do you feel, these ask. One might wonder-why not use these offering instead of Twitter? Simplicity is a large reason, plus micro-blogs tend to fill up one’s profile page; micro-blogging is a simpler and a more elegant solution. Of course Facebook offers applications that let you bridge the gap with other micro-blogging services…..
In India, Twitter has taken off surprisingly well. People use Twitter on their mobile phones and constantly post updates. There are regular Tweet means-by the users and for the users, across the breadth of the country. The details of these meets are of course tweeted in real-time by people at the event. Photos are also posted on Twitter and other social networking sites. Twitter is being used for up-to date news updates on some international channels. Discussion take place in real-time too.
The exercise of micro-blogging is fun and useful but our question is- Is Twitter the only one? Of course not. like any other good idea, there are alternatives; many have offered their own micro-blogging services. Here, we take a look at some of these services; you are sure to find one that will tempt you to switch to these services, and leave twitter behind, even if for a while.
Alternatives services: Read more@ http://eperch.in/
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