Microblogging

Microblogging is a form of blogging characterized by short, frequent posts, often used for sharing updates about personal activities or thoughts. It’s a more casual and immediate form of communication compared to traditional blogging. Microblogging platforms allow users to post content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links.|Reference: Wikipedia Microblogging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging The increasing popularity of microblogging platforms is often attributed to the widespread of smartphones that allow users to share anything instantly.|Reference: World Economic Forum (2021) Your smartphone has become your home, anthropologists say https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/how-we-interact-with-smartphones-report/

Microblogging on Hive

The first and only (as of June 15, 2024) dedicated microblogging Hive front-end is D.Buzz, launched on May 19, 2020, by @chrisrice, @nathansenn, and their team.|Reference: Hive Projects https://hiveprojects.io/projects/p/dbuzz-2/ D.Buzz allows users to share content of up to 280 characters and was originally intended to simplify sharing content from Twitter (X). Unlike more recent microblogging Hive tools, D.Buzz shares content as a root post.|Reference: @d.buzz (2020) Official Launch: D.Buzz is Alive on the Hive Blockchain https://hive.blog/hive/@dbuzz/official-launch-d-buzz-is-alive-on-the-hive-blockchain

Threads, the microblogging platform by Inleo (formerly Leofinance), was launched on July 19, 2022.|Reference: @leothreads (2022) Leo Thread 0.1 https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@leothreads/leo-thread-0-1 As of June 2024, it is the most frequently used platform for short content on Hive, generating hundreds of threads per day. However, some Threads are published by dedicated bots that parse and share articles from outside Hive.

Ecency launched its microblogging interface Decks on May 25, 2023. Decks allow users to share and interact with Waves, the native microblogging format of the Ecency front-end. Besides, Decks allow cross-platform interactions with Inleo Threads and D.Buzz content.|Reference: @ecency (2023) Introducing Decks and Waves https://hive.blog/hive-125125/@ecency/introducing-decks-and-waves

Unlike D.Buzz posts, Threads, and Waves are comments under a root post, called a container, published by a dedicated account. They don’t appear on users’ blogs.