Blogging is as popular as it ever will be right now and as the natural way of things, it has developed beyond just plain blogging. One of the most popular version of it is microblogging.

Blogging and microblogging are the same by principle, but they have a few noteworthy differences. Firstly, as you might have gathered from the name, the posts are a lot shorter (usually limited to 140 characters). This is so because the purpose of these posts is not the give some detailed descriptions of the posters experiences, but instead give an overview of his or her daily on-goings. Another important word regarding microblogging is availability. Most of these sites allow the users to read others' post via e-mail, instant messaging clients or SMS. Fast information exchange is a priority. When someone posts something about their doings, he or she can be pretty sure, that everyone who should, will get the message.

A quite recent article on the web counted all the microblog providers and come up with a total of 111. I think this number will grow even more. This is a good example to show, how microblogging will become (or already is) the next big thing.