The development of World Wide Web and the transformation to web 2.0 brought a lot of changes to people’s lives. Starting from providing easy access for file sharing with static web page, animated gifs, and blinking words, now we can do and find anything in the web. Because web is all about communication, collaboration, and information sharing between people in the network. And unlike the early web, web 2.0 allows people to participate more in the web. People begin to live with the web. From sharing their thoughts through blog to the famous one, joining a social network sites (SNSs—will describe further in this paper). One of the form of SNS is microblogging, a specific website to update your status. In this paper, I will argue that microblogging is a new way of communicates and the risen popularity since it emerged because of the easy to use way, the community created by it, the first form (blog), and how microblogging is useful to every sectors of life.
