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It’s not just Twitter that is spawning television shows in the microblogging world, with the launch of Horsetweet, a microblogging platform for horse lovers, which accompanies U.S. reality TV show ‘Hard Reins to Hold’.

Both the site and the TV show are the work of father and daughter Matt and Loagan Fury, who run Loagan ranches, around which the TV show is based.

Horsetweet itself is on the Shout’Em platform, which allows you to ‘roll your own microblogging community’. Which means you can sign up for the site, or login with your existing Twitter or Windows Live details.

The aim is to accumulate 10,000 members on Horsetweet by the end of 2009 – could this be the start of more disaggregated microblogging for specialist areas of interest?

I’ve just seen a really flattering post by the guys at ShoutEm, the ‘Roll Your Own Microblogging Community’ tool, which puts this little blog in distinguished company as one of the 4 Best Microblogging Blogs on the Web (their words, not mine!).

It’s great to be listed alongside the guys at Microblink, the rightly micro-famous Laura Fitton, and the Problogger himself, Darren Rowse’s TwitTip.

It’s also made me feel a bit guilty, as I’d be the first to admit posting has dropped recently, due to some reasons I can’t share quite yet. But the next couple of days should see some things fall into place, and some changes happening pretty quickly. Plus much, much more posting!

It was also fun to see someone pick up on the Tweet of the Week series – definitely something which will be continuing on a more regular basis (hopefully weekly before I end up having to change the name!)