microblog

English

Alternative forms

• micro-blog

Etymology

From micro- +‎ blog.

Noun

microblog (plural microblogs)

1. (Internet) A blog on which one posts brief, frequent updates on one's activities.
   • 2006 December 10, Richard Rushfield, “It's real time at the same time”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 June 2013, page E20:

     For Dorsey, creating this community of linked microblogs has been "endearing, because you know what everyone you know is doing" […]

Derived terms

• microblogger
• microblogging

 

Translations

blog on which one posts brief updates

• Armenian: միկրոբլոգ (mikroblog)
• Catalan: microblog m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微博客 (zh) (wēibókè), 微博 (zh) (wēibó)

• Finnish: mikroblogi (fi)
• French: microblog (fr) m, microblogue (fr) m
• German: Mikroblog n
• Icelandic: örblogg n
• Japanese: ミニブログ (ja) (miniburogu)
• Korean: 마이크로블로그 (maikeurobeullogeu)
• Portuguese: microblog (pt) m, microblogue m
• Russian: микробло́г (ru) m (mikroblóg)
• Swedish: mikroblogg (sv) c
• Vietnamese: tiểu blog, blog vi mô

See also

• tumblelog

Verb

microblog (third-person singular simple present microblogs, present participle microblogging, simple past and past participle microblogged)

1. (Internet, transitive, intransitive) To post on a microblog.

   I started microblogging last week.

Further reading

• microblogging on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

microblog m (plural microblogs)

1. microblog