Comparison of microblogging and similar services
Appearance
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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 | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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. Archived from the original on April 10, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
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- ^ a b "Overview: Version 1.1 of the Twitter API". Twitter. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- ^ Identi.ca bookmarklet Archived July 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Overview: Google Feed API". Google. Retrieved 23 October 2013.