microblogging

[mahy-kroh-blaw-ging, ‑-blog-ing]

noun

Digital Technology.

1. the act or practice of posting brief entries on a blog or social media website.

   My parents thought my mania for microblogging would lead nowhere, but I just published a book based on my Twitter feed!

Word History and Origins

Origin of microblogging¹

microblog + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

This was particularly true on Tumblr, a microblogging platform that lowered the barrier to entry for would-be critics to share their latest fascination.

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Online, Gen Z makes up more than half of the users on millennials’ former favorite microblogging site Tumblr while Pinterest’s summer 2025 trend report included an uptick in searches for “summer 2015 aesthetic.”

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Both of us, Alex and Nitish, have made Bluesky our primary microblogging app.

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I mean, let’s be frank: The audience for microblogging and text-based content is smaller than it used to be.

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Because Grok is part of Musk’s empire and plugged directly into the microblogging app that the most terminally online political news consumers and media prefer, the text it spits out travels much further than anything ChatGPT might tell me in a private chat window.

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