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Microblogging (eg. Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku) - small, but is it perfectly formed?

Ok so I promised a few days ago to blog about the various social media thingies (that's a technical word!) I've been playing with and here's the first... microblogging!

As it sounds, microblogging is blogging on a small scale. Sort of. Small as in you don't need to type entire essays or articles - just one or two lines and maybe a link depending on which microblogging service you are using which lends itself to blogging from your mobile or pda. MySpace and Facebook both have 'status updates' built in and MySpace has the blog thing going on too, but surely the best known standalone service is Twitter. Others are Jaiku and Dodgeball for mobile - neither of which I have used - and the 'newest-comer' Pownce - on which more coming up in a moment. But first...

Have you tried Twitter yet? How do/did you find it? It's certainly an interesting idea. I signed up back in May, but I didn't really 'get it' and lost interest fairly early on. I just couldn't see how or who it could benefit, beyond people with JOBs who aren't closely monitored and the unemployed.  Well...

Beyond Blogging - a social media marketing experiment

So here it is... first post since June 15th - absolute aeons in blogging terms. That's just short of 6 weeks without posting. Curiously, my inactivity on the blog does not appear to have had any negative effect on my stats - in fact, traffic is up, as are subscribers! 

"How can that possibly be?" I hear you cry. After all, haven't the experts always told us we should be blogging at least twice a week?  Well yes... by and large, there's sense in that kind of frequency, although I would add that one really useful post a month is of more value than 25 'throwaway' ones - in some audiences and markets.  So that could explain it, but I don't think so... I'm fairly sure that traffic is up because whilst I've been quiet here on the blogsite, I've been getting busy with lots of other exciting social media.