The listing of the better microblogs at http://microblogs.ning.com starts with this statement:
“This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time.”
Nice, we all want this. But the question remains: what makes up a really good microblog ?
For me it are these ten requirements:
1* login with username
2* immediately ready for posting after login
3* 140 characters mininum
4* no title needed
5* standard sending to all people
6* no extra tagging needed
7* respecting commas in urls
8* shortening urls
9* directly ready for reposting
10* presenting your previous postings
This list of requirements is ofcourse strictly personal, but I wanted to be able to discuss about quality so I had to substantiate what I see to be necessary for quality.
These seven microblogs meet all these criteria:
http://twitter.com
http://smspr.ru
http://zuosa.com
http://gozub.com
http://blip.pl
http://feecle.jp
Do you know of any other microblog meeting these criteria, let me know it right away !
Pieter Jansegers
http://webosophy.ning.com
