Twitter is a micro-blogging platform, right? Well, that must mean it’s really nothing more than a tiny blog.

Structurally, that’s true. Your Twitter URL does read a little like a tiny blog. It catalogs your Tweets chronologically and presents them that way. The similarities, however, end there.

Here are three reasons why Twitter use doesn’t really represent blogging.

First, there is a much-heightened level of interaction. As such, your Tweets are often part of a conversation, more so than being the kind of free-standing expositions that we associate with blog posts.

Second, the 140 character limitation really changes the game. This little blog post is around 200 words long. The character account is several times greater than that. 140 characters isn’t enough to do anything like what we’d usually consider blogging.

Third, the purpose of participation is slightly different. While the same goal may be in mind (increasing sales, branding, etc.), our objective for a single Tweet is usually going to be much different than our motivation for writing a single blog posts.

Yes, Twitter is micro-blogging. That doesn’t just mean it’s a smaller blog, though. The nature of the system really doesn’t bear much resemblance to blogging as we usually think of it.

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