Twitter, Pownce, PlaceShout, andJaiku, recently acquired by Google, are gaining steam in the social media realm of mobile social networking tools that allows for snippets of conversations that fit into 140 character chunks to be proliferated to a singular community, as in Special Interest Groups or a large communal group, known as microbloggers that wants to stay connected to tens of thousands of people they have never met, nor are likely to meet.
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