If you are into Twitter, you must have explored ways to build a microblogging solution. Microblogging themes are most useful when you have a group blog and need to collaborate with other authors.
We present some of the ready made WordPress themes for those who want to use wordpress as a microblogging service and need a collaboration platform on WordPress.
P2/Prologue
Designed by Automattic, the company behind WordPress, P2 is packed with impressive features like live notifications, in-line editing for posts and comments, real time notifications and ofcouese, a very neat and clean layout.
![prologuedemo[1]](http://www.NextBigWhat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/prologuedemo1.jpg "prologuedemo[1]")
SiXX WordPress Microblog them
This theme is built on top of the Automattic’s P2 theme.
![sixx-microblog-theme-1[1]](http://www.NextBigWhat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sixxmicroblogtheme11.png "sixx-microblog-theme-1[1]")
SiXX offers following features
- Posts and comments on the startpage
- 140 character limit in the traditional microblog way
- Show/hide comments on startpage
- Tags and tagcloud for categorizing post
- You never need to see the WordPress backend as a user
- User can delete their own wrongly posted posts from user interface
- iPhone fully supported (even show/hide comments)
- Sidebar Login (customized plugin)
Live Blogging Plugin
Live blogging plug-in is a plugin developed to support blogs that are doing live micro blogging of running events, such as major sport events or tech conferences.It provides a simple backend interface, and has multiple hooks that can be triggered when a new live blog post is made – at the moment it has a hook to push to Twitter.
Using the plugin to blog these kind of events has two obvious advantages – reducing load on your server of constant pageloads from people refreshing your blog, and also to get your entries out quicker than anyone else.
Recommended Read: Best Twitter Plugins for WordPress Blogs [The Complete List]
Ashiish K Sinha
