Motorola DROID 2 Global, Manual

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CHAPTER 20: Social Media and Skype
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Tumblr is worthy of mention. It allows short microblog
posts, but it also supports multimedia better than
Twitter by directly embedding it in threads. It also
enables threaded responses to posts. Tumblr users
create rich
Tumblogs with pictures, videos, links, and
text.
There are multiple Android apps that support Tumblr,
both free and premium. Just as with Twitter and
Facebook, there’s also an official
Tumblr app. The
free ttTumblr app shown to the right offers a lot of
features in conjunction with a simple user interface.
Plurk is another microblogging alternative to Twitter
and Facebook. It organizes posts on a timeline and
assigns “karma” for participation. Like Tumblr, it
allows easier multimedia embedding, and it has built-
in privacy settings to make it useful for both small
and large groups. Posts are organized on a scrolling
horizontal timeline, which allows threaded responses.
The web timeline interface makes it challenging to
translate to a phone app; however, the
PlurQ app
(shown on the right) does a good job of implementing
this feature on a phone.