Blogs and microblogs are among the collaborative networks of Web 2.0. Although related, they have specificities. Both promote openness, immersion, participation and creation of links between networks' members who constitute it. The most successful of microblogs, Twitter, is exemplary of the differential characteristics of these tools, such as brevity of the messages, mobility, real-time capture, change in the nature of the mediation. It results in variations in the way of expressing yourself and in the way individuals relate to reality, through one tool or another. The users can thematize their experiences through short and instantaneous publications in microblogs or do it in more reflected way as well. These possibilities of use enable identifying manners in which such social networks provide the objectification of subjectivity.
Twitter; social networking; individuality; subjectivity