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The tables below compare general and technical information for some notable active microblogging services and social network services that have status updates.
General information
Service | Owner | Launched | Primary service | Software license | Content license | Multilingual | Ad-free |
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Facebook, Inc.[1] | 2004-02 | social network | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No | |
Google+ | Google, Inc. | 2011-06 | social network | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No |
identi.ca | Status Net, Inc. | 2008-07 [2] | micro-blogging | Apache v2 (pump.io) | CC-BY 3.0 | Yes | Yes |
Tout | Tout | 2010-04 [3] | micro-blogging | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Twitter, Inc. | 2006-08 [4] | micro-blogging | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No | |
Yammer | Yammer, Inc. | 2008-09 [5] | micro-blogging | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Instapray | Instapray, Inc. | 2013-03 | social network | proprietary | own TOS | No | Yes |
Features
An overview of integral features. Extras may be provided by third party applications/services, but are not listed here.
Service | Tagging[Note 1] | Groups | Conversation[Note 2] | Private[Note 3] | Private following list | OpenMicroBlogging | RSS | Atom | FOAF | Bookmarklet |
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Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | |
Google+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No[6] | No[6] | ? | ? |
identi.ca | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[7] |
Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No[8] | No[8] | No | No | |
Instapray | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
Posting and reading
Communication methods supported by the services. Extras may be provided by third party applications/services, but are not listed here.
Service | Post via | Read via | |||||||||
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Web | XMPP | SMS | API | Web | XMPP | SMS | API | Feed | |||
Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
identi.ca | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Jaiku | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
Qaiku | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
See also
References
- ^ Eldon, Eric. (2008-12-18). "2008 Growth Puts Facebook In Better Position to Make Money". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
- ^ "Control Yourself, Inc. launches Identi.ca, the Open Microblogging Service". Control Yourself, Inc. 2008-07-02. Retrieved 2009-07-02. [dead link]
- ^ Malone, Michael (2011-12-05). "News Chiefs 'Tout' Benefits of Social Video". Broadcasting & Cable.
- ^ Twitter - Where did the idea for Twitter come from?
- ^ - About Yammer
- ^ a b "Overview: Version 1.1 of the Twitter API". Twitter. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- ^ Identi.ca bookmarklet [dead link]
- ^ a b "Overview: Google Feed API". Google. Retrieved 23 October 2013.