Microblogging services were also ordered to monitor content more closely and remove objectionable posts more quickly.
Note that Microblogging did not exist as a category in 2008, but is rising fast.
Sina has become quite the sensation in China due to its microblogging platform known as Weibo.
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Microblogging website Menshn, launched seven months ago by former Conservative MP Louise Mensch, has closed.
He is also NASA's first astronaut post bilingual updates to the microblogging Web site Twitter.
With that many folks on the six-year-old microblogging site, Twitter is always good for a few surprises.
If you are not familiar with it, corporate microblogging simplifies how you can send messages to others.
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Microblogging tools from Sina and Tencent should be used to identify where there are problems to be corrected.
The company has time and again expressed its intention to step up efforts for monetizing the microblogging website.
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Images posted on microblogging sites showed wrecked trucks and debris, as well as a collapsed section of highway.
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Social networks buzzed with this news as it spread prompting thousands of posts on the Sina Weibo microblogging site.
At most big companies, the microblogging site is seen as the domain of pop stars, narcissists and disgruntled customers.
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At the same time the state sees benefits in microblogging and social networks.
Gizmodo uncovered the trick and it spread quickly across the microblogging service.
Sina introduced the microblogging weibo to its online services in 2009 to try to catch up with rival Tencent.
Even more affluent are users of Twitter, the microblogging site, and LinkedIn, a networking site geared to white-collar professionals.
Tumblr (pronounced as tumbler, like a drinking glass) is a website styled much like a blog but with microblogging elements.
If you are intimidated by using online collaboration tools, then microblogging is an easy on-ramp to working in this mode.
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But now two other companies have challenged Google for the jester's crown Twitter, a microblogging service, and Zappos, an online shoe-shop.
Microblogging allows employees to send direct and broadcast messages to each other, similar in concept to Twitter but within the company.
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The court's decision drew an enthusiastic response from China's Twitter-like microblogging services, which have become de facto forums for national discussion.
Their tools ranged from TELUS Buzz, a microblogging platform of updates and questions to their version of an internal YouTube channel.
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Tencent, which is a major player in the Chinese market, offers several internet services, including Tencent Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging site.
The microblogging startup hires 11 new employees for every employee it loses.
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Google just announced the release of Jarlsberg, a microblogging app specifically designed to be full of bugs and security flaws.
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Sina said the number of registered users for its Weibo microblogging service has now topped 100 million, doubling from four months ago.
She is the only non-American in the top 10 of microblogging stardom.
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The presenter herself wrote about it on microblogging website Twitter earlier this week, saying she was "so excited about our new show".
Microblogging site Twitter, meanwhile, passed the 75 million mark earlier this year.
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