Cloob
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| URL | cloob.com |
| Slogan | cloob dot com : virtual society of Iranians all across the world |
| Commercial? | yes |
| Type of site | Social network service |
| Registration | yes (not compulsory) |
| Available language(s) | Persian and some other languages including English |
| Launched | December 21, 2004 [1] |
| Alexa rank | < 739 [2] |
| Current status | Active |
Cloob.com is a Persian-language social networking website, mainly popular in Iran. After the locally (and internationally) popular social networking website Orkut was censored by the Iranian government, a series of local sites and networks, including Cloob, emerged to fill the gap. Its main page contains the title Iranian Virtual Society and states that all content is controlled in accordance with Iranian law, a policy intended to lower the risk of government censorship. Its has an invite-only registration system.
The website claims to have around 1 million members and over 100 million page views per month. Users have access to features like: internal email (for individual friends, groups of friends and community members), communities and community discussions (clubs), personal and community photo albums, article archive for communities, live messaging and chat rooms for communities, weblog, job and resume database, virtual money (called coroob), income/expense book keeping for individual members, online shops for offering goods and services, classifieds, questions and answers, link and content sharing, news, member updates and extensive permission setting capabilities.
Some of the services consume virtual money. For example, advanced search in community discussions, advanced member search, receipt for email messages, list of profile visitors and a few other services will use different amounts of member's available virtual money. It is possible to buy virtual money or transfer it to other users.
Cloob was censored on 7th March 2008 (the period of Parliament elections) by Iran Government. However, after what the Cloob management called "removal of illegal and controversial content" access was restored to Iranian internet users on 29th April 2008 and the website was available until 25th December 2009 but was once again censored and remains so currently.
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