Billy Wilcosky

Narwhal Microblog adds a minimal front-end posting form on any page with the shortcode, [narwhal]. It’s meant for short updates or microblogging.
The form submits without refreshing the page and then redirects to the post that was created. If you don’t quite like this behavior, check out the FAQs.
Unlike other front-end forms that have you type out the title, post content, and tags separately, this plugin takes an original approach by using a special format. Think of it like using markdown in a way (if you’re familiar with that). Once you commit the format to memory it makes posting updates even faster.
What you type into the textarea is:
(Title in parentheses) 
Content on a new line with any word #hashtagged.
Example:
(This is an amazing title) 
But, the #content is even better!
The above would create a post titled, “This is an amazing title,” with “content” as a tag.

Narwhal Microblog

Narwhal Microblog adds a minimal front-end posting form on any page with the [narwhal] shortcode.

chrisnorthwood

cheche

Vidyut

Live Blogging is a plugin that allows you to insert micro/live blogs into posts with automatic updating of the content.
Note: I am not really a good coder. More like a copy-paste hacker. I keep this plugin updated, but adding functionality and such may not be so prompt – if at all it happens. I am mostly updating this to include bugfixes.
Special thanks to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/users/willjw/" rel="ugc">Will Woodward</a> for bugfixes offered in the support section.
This plugin is based on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-blogging/" rel="ugc">Live Blogging plugin by Chris Northwood</a>. Fixes some outdated code and allows adding links to the live blog in Twitter updates.
To see this plugin in use, it’s probably easiest to watch <a href="http://www.pling.org.uk/static/Live_Blogging_for_WordPress_2.0.swf" rel="nofollow ugc">this screencast</a>.
Live Blogging is a plugin developed to support blogs that are doing live micro blogging of running events.
Using WordPress 3.0’s custom post types, the plugin allows you to create these micro blog entries in a stripped down version of the normal post edit screen. These micro blog entries then get included in a post which has been activated as the microblog.
By default, the plugin uses AJAX polling to allow your readers to instantly update what they are viewing, including any new comments posted on the post. For professional bloggers, Meteor is supported, which gives the smoothest updating experience for your viewers and also significantly reduces the load on your server. (Note: This meteor part of the code has not been updated since the original. I don’t know how well it will work now.)
Additionally, the plugin also supports integration with Twitter – if activated, the first 239 characters of each live blog entry (including permalink to live blog page) will be posted to Twitter when they are made.
Using this plugin will give you an advantage over your competitors if you’re blogging from live events – your readers will get updates quicker, and it will integrate into your blog better than competing systems, such as CoverItLive.
<h3>Credits</h3>
<h4>Original Plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-blogging/" rel="ugc">Live Blogging plugin by Chris Northwood</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-twitteroauth-to-publish-twitter" rel="ugc">Update for Twitter OAuth contributed by cheche</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Internationalisation</h4>
<ul>
<li>Chinese language: Haoxian Zeng</li>
<li>Persian language: Rasoul Moshrefizadeh</li>
<li>Lithuanian language: Vincent G from http://www.host1free.com/</li>
</ul>

Live Blogging Plus

Live Blogging is a plugin that allows you to insert micro/live blogs into posts with automatic updating of the content.

Narwhal Microblog vs Live Blogging Plus