Blogging has been around since the late 90's, but a new form, microblogging, is quickly taking hold of the Internet world. Rather than long-winded posts (not too much unlike my own), microbloggers post small bits of information - maybe a quote, picture, video, or link. Because of the ease in microblogging, a picture can spread to millions of people in a matter of seconds.
Tumblr, the most popular microblogging service, hosts over 33 million blogs and twelve billion posts. Unlike Twitter, Tumblr is designed to better deal with the millions of images posted on its website each day. Over half of Tumblr's posts are images whereas Twitter is mostly text-based.
So why is all of this important to you? Find out after the
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