5 Microblogging Apps you should know

Top 5 Microblogging apps you should know about

Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter, founded Medium, an online platform for bloggers and social journalism, in August 2012. A variety of blogs and news from experienced and amateur writers can be found on Medium.

According to Evan Williams, the purpose of the medium is to encourage users to type more than 140 characters. The medium is unique because it provides online editing and formatting of rich text content. In addition to the free version of Medium, there is a paid version, which includes additional features such as audio narration, improved bookmarking, etc.

Tags make searching easier for users. Users can include relevant tags on their blogs.

Twitter is a multilingual, social networking service launched on July 15, 2006. Messages are called Tweets. Prior to Nov 7 2017, a person could write up to 140 characters. After Nov 7 2017, the characters were doubled. Tweets are publicly visible by default, but the sender can restrict who can see them according to privacy settings. Subscribe to the following of the user account. Tweets forwarded with the owner's account are called Retweets.

According to market research, Twitter content can be divided into six categories

• News
• Spam
• Self-promotion
• Conversation
• Pointless babble
• Pass along value

In 2007, David Carp founded Tumbler, a short blogging website that offers short picture messages & multimedia blogs.

LiveJournal was founded by Brad Fitzpatrick on April 15, 1999, and is a social networking site for bloggers. In January 2005, the company which operated LiveJournal (Danga Interactive) was purchased by American blogging software company ‘Six Apart’.

Livejournal's unique features allow users to use it as a diary or blog. Journal entries have their own web page, which shows users' recent activities along with their comments. You can also add people as friends. Users can see all the journal entries of their friends.

Avatars allow users to customize their accounts. Every user has a set of friends, hobbies, contact information, biography images, events they have attended in the past, etc. In addition, you can embed Instagram posts and videos. It also allows users to link their accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Livejournal has 5 different types of account levels: 1. Basics, 2. Plus 3. Paid 4. Early adopters 5. Permanent account.

In 2014, Paul Budniz and Todd Berger developed Ello, an ad-free alternative social media platform. Ello showcases fashion, photography, and web design in the social media world.

How Ello is different from other social media.

You don't have to worry about Ello selling your data to third parties and advertisers.

Real names are never enforced. There is also no charge. You can sell your work on Ello, and collaborate with others. There are separate sell and collaborate buttons on Ello for selling and collaboration.