Microblogging

=Micro Blogging=

Microblogging has been used to describe a range of different sites that allow you to say what you are doing but only let you use a limited number of words (usually 140 characters)

Here are some of them:

http://twitter.com/ is the most popular microblogging tool, and there are a host of related applications to support it. Learn more about Twitter.
 * Twitter**

Jaiku: http://www.jaiku.com Pownce: http://www.pownce.com Plurk: http://www.plurk.com

There's even a microblogging tool based on Twitter that allows you to share the music you are listening to: http://blip.fm

//How can we use this kind of tool with students? Any ideas?//