Yo! Today, I’m gonna tell you how to make your own wordpress powered twitter-like microblog.

Automattic guys did a great job and created a theme that can turn your wordpress into a nifty group microblog.

Basically It’s your own group twitter! Why the hell would anyone want that functionality? Well, think about it, the possibilities are endless. The coolest thing is that you can post any media you want. The second great feature is that It is a cute minimalistic group blog. So what does it give us? Imagine, you and your friends working on a website or anything else. Everyone posts updates on the work in the microblog. Work collaboration. or you and your mates decide to make a quote, video, audio, link collection. Simple, fast, minimalistic, categorized and most importantly – your own, customizable in any way microblog.

And hey, It’s so simple to set up! Just install the worpress theme and a few plugins and you’re ready to go!

Download the theme. Here’s the  theme preview It’s kind of bugged, a better preview can be found here.

Download the logreg plugin so that users can register from the frontpage. Or you can just make it a closed blog, so only you and your friends can post updates.

And download simple gravatars plugin so that users can use avatars.

That’s It! your mini-twitter is set up!

UPD: and if you want to make a twitter-like service, there’s a nice script that (with some development) can actually do it for you. It’s called laconi.ca. It’s open source by the way, meaning that it’s free and you are allowed to do whatever you like with it. See it in action at identi.ca