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Échanger (réseaux sociaux) Net | Your Network. Public timeline. Microblogging. Social network with short posts As with traditional blogging, users post about topics ranging from the simple, such as "what I'm doing right now," to the thematic, such as "sports cars. " Commercial microblogs also exist to promote websites, services, and products and to promote collaboration within an organization.

Some microblogging services offer privacy settings, which allow users to control who can read their microblogs or alternative ways of publishing entries besides the web-based interface. These may include text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, digital audio, or digital video. Origin[edit] The first micro-blogs were known as tumblelogs. The term was coined by why the lucky stiff in a blog post on April 12, 2005, while describing Leah Neukirchen's Anarchaia.[5] Jason Kottke described tumblelogs on October 19, 2005:[6] A tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. Usage[edit] Issues[edit] Twitter. UrfistPacaC (UrfistNice) Tumblr.