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Microblogs Microblogging is a relatively recent trend that is used by many people. Users of microblogs range from young children and teenagers to elderly people, locals, foreigners, and even the president of the United States of America. The amount of characters allowed for microblogs may be fairly limiting, but many people use them as a way to express themselves to the rest of the cyber world. Microblogs are considered to be a Web 2.0 tool which means that it is a newer and more updated version of Web applications and users have the ability to both share and consume information and content. A great example of a Microblog is Twitter. Twitter is a social networking site that not only allows to share mini blog posts, but it allows its users to share content from other sites such as YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, and other social networking and Web Communication tools. The ability to share content from other various Web tools serves as an expansion of the character limit of microblogging sites. Microblogs such as Twitter, for example, limits users to a mere 140 characters which can be used up in less than a sentence. This causes users to have an additional link within their post for others to be able to view the whole post, or they may need to have multiple posts to try and get their point across. One good thing about the limiting post is that people have to try and get their point across more efficiently, but this leads to an increased usage in internet slang which can viewed as both a good thing and a bad thing. It may be seen as a positive thing because people are getting more creative and trying to find new ways to communicate and communicate faster, but it can also be seen as a negative thing because many people are not communicating with proper English and are dumbing themselves down in a sense. Microblogs can be such a positive thing because they have the ability to link people from opposite corners of the world and they also give people ways for their voices to be heard.

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