About a month ago, I found a new playable toy. It is one of Web 2.0 applications. It’s called Microblogging. As its name suggested, a microblogging service lets you to send small portion of text, not longer than 140 characters and publish it on your microblogging site. Some microblogging services also provide “friends” mechanism, a list of people you allow to read, comment and send message to you through microblogging.
The most popular microblogging service is Twitter ,a Ruby on Rails web application which provides various ways to post text to your site, thanks to its open API. You can post text directly through web, command-line client, dekstop client (Twitux, mitter, or GTwitter) or even through RIA application (Adobe Air Spaz). Twitter also have some cool features. For example, if you are one of Remember The Milk users, you can add rtm bots as your follower. By sending message to the rtm bots, you can add, edit, delete your task from your Remember The Milk account through twitter.
Despite all its coolness, Twitter also have flaws. Their service sometimes is unstable. Some user said that every time they access their Twitter account, they always meet the blue whale, which is a sign that Twitter service is currently down. I personally have experienced when Twitter database server was down.
Nowadays, there are some microblogging services that aim for these unsatisfied users. Microblogging sites such as Jaiku, Plurk and the new born Identi.ca claim that they service as good as Twitter minus the crash. I recently create my Identi.ca account , but I still hope my Twitter can survive. I still love Twitter 
