Microblogging sites are the new trend and they have a cult following from online users. As one microblogging service, Twitter, puts it the principle is simple: it allows users to send updates which are text-based posts, ranging up to 140 characters long. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

There are some instances though that the senders want to just send updates to specific friends. They can do this by restricting delivery to those friends they only want to receive the updates, although delivery to everyone is the default.

It’s a great way to make and find new friends perhaps even better than keeping a blog. The current king in microblogging is Twitter but its services are currently lagging because of its unstable architecture. Meanwhile critics and users alike are all praises for the upstart Friendfeed. The Friendfeed principle works in a slightly different manner as twitter:

Friendfeed is a social aggregator that consolidates the updates from social websites such as blog entries, social book marking websites, and social networks among others. It really affords convenience to the user because of this. All the programs the user is subscribed to can be neatly tucked in one open program!

Although users have the power of choice and both microblogging sites serves different interests. It’s still a matter of time before people choose a platform they prefer. Some people side with Twitter and some side with Friendfeed. Some however claim that it is a theory of a banana and apple, the two must simply co-exist with one another because their purposes are different.

However, the new and exciting trend is happening neither in Twitter or Friendfeed. An exciting trend since people have a new avenue to voice their thoughts, and it paves the way for the rise of the professional blogger. Before, anybody with random thoughts and ideas can have a blog. Thus, blogging is seen as a hobby rather than something you can make a serious career out of. With much of the noise over the internet going to Friendfeed and Twitter blogging can now be reserved for people with real expertise and real specialized skills that is worth sharing on the internet. So far we have seen the trend as the new writers, the SEO writers are being hired to write for blogs with this kind of vision. What we can say now is that Twitter and Friendfeed organize the internet and each will be given their proper place. Those random thought that people have can easily be gobbled up by the microblogging sites and those with real substantial ideas can now make real profit in blogging as it now becomes more professionalized.