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Micro-Blogging - Do You Twitter ?

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1. Twitter

Twitter is a micro blogging service that has been around for quite some time. Updates on Twitter, also called tweets are an answer to the question “What are you doing?” the word count for the posts are limited to 140 words. However, in a day, you can upload as many times as you want. There are no ads, and the service is free.

What makes Twitter and such micro-blogging tools cool is the incorporation of social networking features. You can configure Twitter to follow the updates of your friends as they follow your own updates. Not only friends, but you can follow the updates of virtually anybody as long as you know their e-mail ID and they don’t block you. Consider the applications of this feature – in a corporate environment, where several people are working as a team-such updates let all the team members know what is being done by whom.
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