Recently Twitter, the popular microblogging site, has amassed a great deal of hype. After being promoted by celebrities and featured on numerous talk shows, including the Oprah Winfrey Show, Twitter has become a household name.
But in spite of the publicity, there are still many people who dislike Twitter both for its limitations and the connotation that all Twitter posts are as inane as what I had for breakfast this morning.
If you are a Twitter Doubter, or just prone to long-windedness, you might enjoy Woofer -- the macroblogging site that requires users to post a minimum of 1,400 characters.
So far nearly eight thousand people have joined Woofer and have made over nine thousand woofs. However, the woof content is not what you might expect of bloggers. Some of the more popular woofs are copied from works such as The Gettysburg Address, A Tale of Two Cities, and Moby Dick. Unfortunately from what I've seen so far the average woof is random words and characters akin to the dreaded spam email.
Clearly, Woofer is not a tool that will replace or even rival Twitter, but it should make for some interesting reading. And even I, a strong microblogging advocate, can enjoy this homage to Twitter.
You can follow The Tech Desk on Twitter @tpltechnology and follow the Troy Public Library @troylib.
And there you have it: 1,400 characters (punctuation and spaces included, of course).
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11% of American Adults Microblog
According to a December report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 11% of online American adults said they use a microblog like Twitter or Yammer, or the microblogging feature on one of the other social network sites to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.
These services have been most avidly embraced by young adults. Nearly one in five (19%) online adults ages 18 to 24 have ever used microblogs, as have 20% of online adults 25 to 34. Use of these services drops off steadily after age 35 with 10% of 35 to 44 year olds, 5% of 45 to 54 year olds, 4% of 55-64 year olds and 2% of those 65 and older using Twitter.
These “status updaters” are also a mobile bunch; as a group they are much more likely to be using wireless technologies -- laptops, handhelds and cell phones -- for Internet access, or cell phones for text messaging.
View the report, Online Activities and Pursuits.
Meanwhile, while you are not tweeting, you can read about last week's Shorty Awards, which honored the best tweeters, as determined by a popular vote from from Wired.com.
These services have been most avidly embraced by young adults. Nearly one in five (19%) online adults ages 18 to 24 have ever used microblogs, as have 20% of online adults 25 to 34. Use of these services drops off steadily after age 35 with 10% of 35 to 44 year olds, 5% of 45 to 54 year olds, 4% of 55-64 year olds and 2% of those 65 and older using Twitter.
These “status updaters” are also a mobile bunch; as a group they are much more likely to be using wireless technologies -- laptops, handhelds and cell phones -- for Internet access, or cell phones for text messaging.
View the report, Online Activities and Pursuits.
Meanwhile, while you are not tweeting, you can read about last week's Shorty Awards, which honored the best tweeters, as determined by a popular vote from from Wired.com.
Microblogging Takes Off at Work
According to this recent article by Stephen Humphries in the Christian Science Monitor, twitter-like microblogging sites are now used at the workplace as “internal-communication services allow multitasking employees to update each other via short, blog-like posts.”
“By blasting haiku-length updates to a central hub, workers can post status bulletins, share ideas, ask questions, post news, and pass along links and information. The upshot: Microblogging has the potential to facilitate collegial collaboration and help organizations collect, share, and disseminate knowledge,” writes Humphries.
“By blasting haiku-length updates to a central hub, workers can post status bulletins, share ideas, ask questions, post news, and pass along links and information. The upshot: Microblogging has the potential to facilitate collegial collaboration and help organizations collect, share, and disseminate knowledge,” writes Humphries.
