Microblogging is tweeting, or tooting, or similar. Very short messages, usually from one person and directed to whomever happens to notice them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging
A thread is a collection of comments from people replying to one another, usually organized in a tree structure. It's more like a conversation.
That’s correct. Kbin offers both an ability to “toot” or an ability to create topical threads through its magazines
Microblogging is the name for things like Twitter. You "blog" only small texts like the famous 160 characters of Twitter. A tweet or toot would be called micropost or just "status update". On microblogs you usually don't have threads but replies to a post. These replies and the initial post effectively form a thread but all the replies are also separate posts by the user.
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