Microblogging services -which let subscribers post short personal updates online or broadcast them as text messages—have inspired a slew of ancillary services.
Clients -These are desktop or mobile-device applications that access microblogs’ content.
Toys -are sites that present the content in new ways, often combined with other data.
Accessories meet needs specific to microbloggers—such as a way to shorten Urls so that they fit inside status updates.
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