A microblog is basically designed to provide users with a way to carry on discussions and post updates via their browsers. It can, however, become a bit difficult to follow each topic if the site becomes overrun with conversations. Providing users with a way to mark certain conversations as favorites can do a lot to alleviate this problem. Once a user marks a topic as a favorite, they will easily be able to keep up with and take part in that conversation. To add a feature such as this a plugin is, of course, required.
With the WP Favorite Posts plugin, found at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/, users can mark certain posts as favorites, which will make it easy for them to keep track of the conversations that they want to follow. With this plugin, favorites are saved in two ways. For users who aren't logged in, favorites are saved using cookies. Since users of your website will always be logged in when using...