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With the success of Twitter, microblogging storm took over the world. Let me give you one line definition of microblog. Microblog is a log of everyday things as they happen in your daily life. This log is basically a brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips.

Microblogging websites allows you to share this log with your friends in the same microblogging platform. Updates can be done via text messaging, IM, email or the web. Here are list of 18 most commonly used microblogging website.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.

Friendfeed is close on the heals of Twitter, it’s a real time aggregator that combines the best of instant messaging and microblogging. It consolidates the updates from social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging, social media and social networking websites.

YouAre is a free service to show the world who you really are. Share everything you do throughout the day while connecting with others quickly and easily. Fast, fun, and in 140 characters: share everything you do throughout the day using text, video and images.

Identi.ca is a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software StatusNet tool. you can post small (140 chars or less) text notices about yourself, where you are, what you’re doing, or practically anything you want. You can also subscribe to the notices of your friends, or other people you’re interested in, and follow them on the Web or in an RSS feed.

Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service. It shows the user’s home page using a timeline which lists all the updates received in chronological order, and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

Meemi is the easiest way to share and collect your texts, your quotes, your images, your favourites links , to organize your events with your friends or collect your favourites video.

Brightkite is a location-based microblogging website that is available on any mobile device. Users “check in” at places by using text messaging or one of the mobile applications and they can see who is nearby and who has been there before.

Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question. Yammer focuses on businesses, and only individuals with the same email domain can join a given network.

BlipFm is a combination of a song and a short message that accompanies it. The way you create a blip is to first search for a song that you want to hear or a song that you want your listeners to hear, then add a short message (under 150 characters), finally you submit it.

Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme’s HTML.

YahoooMeme is where you share everything you find that’s interesting. The have added some ideas about better ways to do this than what you see in other sites.

Foursquare lets you & your friends new ways of exploring your city. Earn points & unlock badges for discovering new things. People use foursquare to “check-in”, which is a way of telling us your whereabouts

Simler is a social messaging service that connects you with other like-minded people. Meet other people that like the same thing you like, or connect with others that have more than one thing in common with you.

Zcapes is a mini blog platform on your mobile. Anyone can make a Zcape for free for any object or event. Zcapes helps you not to miss a thing.

Jaiku’s goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to have conversations. It offers a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing updates with them on the Web, IM, and SMS.

Cromple was created so everyone could start blogging and see what their friends are doing. It’s for people who want a simple, no frills blog which they can post to quickly when ever and where ever they want!.

PlayTalk is a social network service based microblog that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. People use PlayTalk to write brief text updates and publish them, meet friends and keep up on what they are doing by enabling them to share their life.

Moodmill is a social mood management website. It’s a personal mood management, a log, a quick ‘n easy website for managing and sharing your short logs with your contacts.