Microblogging as the term suggests means blogging in micro pieces. It permits you to write brief texts on a particular social community or on a site and publish to be viewed by anyone. The basic aim of microblogging is to communicate and converse with the certain limit of characters. Microblogging is gaining popularity as it requires least effort from the people to be connected to each other.

The various Microblogging networks available are:

• Twitter
• Moodmill
• Facebook
• Bebo

Out of all the Microblog services Twitter has been the most popular among all and the reason of its popularity is it has constantly allowed people to communicate with the world applications and also connecting with the interesting people.There is an advantage to the twitter post, here you can pen your thoughts instantly and not like other blogs where you have to do time management and have to gather the thoughts before writing them. Moreover twitter is being used widely by people all over the globe so the information one can get from twitter is magnificent.

Microblogging plays a significant role in promoting one’s business. On Twitter you can set up your account to promote your business online and as twitter is visited by thousands of people daily and would route lot of traffic to your site. But this is not enough as creating an account or by doing link building. As people would not be interested in your site but you have to arouse the interest of the people and you can do this by finding people with whom your interests match so then you can spread the message promptly as twitter is all about quick response.

There are some steps about how to post when you are doing it for the first time:

• Try to publish interesting blogs/articles
• What is your view point on current events
• Another way of making friends on twitter is to give a reply to another user on his /her blog and you can increase your contacts manifold.
• Another simpler way is to repeat someone’s else blog and again you can check who have repeated your blog so that you can generate traffic to your website.

The crux of the whole discussion lies in the fact microblogging helps the customers to publicize the brands online as you believe that it would be of great use for the people and this is fine but as soon people indulge in spamming then it losses its value and shine.

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