140Char

It feels weird to publish a post effectively blowing our own trumpets, but this was too good not to share. A quick look around for other interesting sites covering microblogging revealed 140char.com is the #1 return for a Google search for ‘microblogging blog’.

Wahey!

That would be the almighty Wikipedia below us!

To justify the post a bit more, I did a quick bit of playing around for the following searches:

‘microblogging blog’ 1,250,000 results.

‘twitter blog’ 41,600,000 results. (And we’re nowhere near as high!)

‘jaiku blog’ 3,830,000 results.

‘pownce blog’ 2,570,000 results.

‘plurk blog’ 2,460,000 results.

‘identi.ca blog’ 392,000 results.

‘yammer blog’ 258,000 results.

A quick look at Google Trends echoes these results. I won’t embed the graph because Twitter skews it so far that everything else is just a blurred line at the bottom.

However:

It’ll be interesting to see whether open source microblogging and services which can be manually deployed behind the corporate firewall is demanded as much as enterprise options set-up and hosted by a third party. I suspect the current data is skewed somewhat by the mentions of Yammer winning the TechCrunch 50!