Reddit is a link aggregator and forum. There’s no hard line for how many characters is too many to be a microblog, but Reddit’s 40,000 for a post and 10,000 for a comment is plainly disqualifying.
Edit: Oh, but Reddit is also a meme. Case closed; I retract my objection. /s
Microblogs are differentiated from blogs almost entirely by the short length of their posts (we’re normally talking hundreds of characters); that’s why they’re called “microblogs”. Wikipedia accurately summarizes and properly sources:
Microblogging is a form of blogging using short posts without titles known as microposts or status updates.
I could’ve also invoked titles, but the length difference is so vast that there’s no need.
Reddit categorically fails the micro part, but it even fails the blog part. The whole point of a blog is that you follow an individual account’s writings, and – except for a new, tacked-on, superfluous, barely used feature where you can follow users – Reddit has you follow subforums.
Basically, I’d already be confused about how someone could categorize Reddit as a blog, but to think it’s a microblog is to fundamentally not know what that is.
Edit: just to illustrate the absurdism, the average English word by usage is about 4.5 characters, implying about 8500 words. A single-spaced, 12-point page can fit about 3000 characters, and thus you’re looking at roughly a 13-page, 8500-word essay.
wait what is reddit then?
Reddit is a link aggregator and forum. There’s no hard line for how many characters is too many to be a microblog, but Reddit’s 40,000 for a post and 10,000 for a comment is plainly disqualifying.
Edit: Oh, but Reddit is also a meme. Case closed; I retract my objection. /s
Reddit’s character limit is to high to be a microblog?
I wasn’t aware of that criteria.
Microblogs are differentiated from blogs almost entirely by the short length of their posts (we’re normally talking hundreds of characters); that’s why they’re called “microblogs”. Wikipedia accurately summarizes and properly sources:
I could’ve also invoked titles, but the length difference is so vast that there’s no need.
Reddit categorically fails the micro part, but it even fails the blog part. The whole point of a blog is that you follow an individual account’s writings, and – except for a new, tacked-on, superfluous, barely used feature where you can follow users – Reddit has you follow subforums.
Basically, I’d already be confused about how someone could categorize Reddit as a blog, but to think it’s a microblog is to fundamentally not know what that is.
Edit: just to illustrate the absurdism, the average English word by usage is about 4.5 characters, implying about 8500 words. A single-spaced, 12-point page can fit about 3000 characters, and thus you’re looking at roughly a 13-page, 8500-word essay.