Tuesday, July 6, 2010

More on micro-blogging VS blogging

Micro-blogs VS Blogs

In week 6, we looked at Micro-blogging (e.g. Twitter, 微博). There are some questions about the differences between Micro-blog and traditional blogs (e.g. Blogger), so let's talk about it a bit more.

Both of them look very similar to each other and they provide very similar features, but the major differences are:

Micro-blogBlogs
ContentMore personal touch and sharing of present activity, thought or viewStories with more background information, pics or videos
AudienceYou can know who are your followers and reading your postsMay not know
LimitationNot more than 140 words and can only attach 1 pic/video at one time, can be considered as mini-blogsNo limitation

No matter you are using micro-blogs or traditional blogs, it is one of the ways using Web 2.0 tools to express your views, ideas and thoughts, and communicate with your social networks.

1 comment:

Christina MLIM said...

Since Micro-blogging is limited to "Not more than 140 words and can only attach 1 pic/video at one time", it is very convenient for the users who like to post message by mobile phone, anywhere and anytime.