Micro Publication Social Media Visibility

A social network service focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. A social network service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Although online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks (wikipedia, 2010).

Micro Publishing, made famous by twitter, allows users to put out short blasts about anything and everything. While Foursquare recently added the feature to shout about information and relay a location, twitter still remains the top micropublishing source.

Facebook has a micro publication feature that was added shortly after twitters success, but has never taken to the market as a communication tool the way twitter has. You can link Facebook and twitter accounts for both personal and business updates that sync, however business, organizations and other groups require a process to get approval.