Comparison of microblogging services

The tables below compare general and technical information for some notable microblogging services and social network services that have status updates.

Contents

General information

Service Owner Launched Primary service Software license Content license Multilingual Ads
Facebook Facebook, Inc.[1] February 2004 social network proprietary own TOS Yes Yes
identi.ca Status Net, Inc. July 2008 [2] micro-blogging AGPL v3 (StatusNet) CC-BY 3.0 Yes Yes (Ad Bard)
bentio.com Bentio January 2010 [3] micro-blogging AGPL v3 (Bentio) CC-BY 3.0 [4] Yes No
Jaiku Google June 2006 micro-blogging Apache License 2.0 (JaikuEngine) own TOS Yes No
NotePub NotePub May 2008 micro-blogging proprietary own TOS Yes No
Qaiku Rohea March 2009 micro-blogging proprietary, parts LGPL (Midgard) Yes No
Twitter Twitter, Inc. August 2006 [5] micro-blogging proprietary own TOS Yes Yes
Yammer Yammer, Inc. September 2008 [6] micro-blogging proprietary own TOS Yes No
Woondy CrazyWebber January 2011 [7] micro-blogging proprietary - No Yes
Ohawo Goom, inc March 2011 [8] micro-blogging proprietary - Yes No
Free & Social Piratpartiet December 2011 [9] micro-blogging AGPL v3 (StatusNet) CC-BY-SA 3.0 Yes No

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
Facebook Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes No ? ?
identi.ca Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[10]
bentio.com Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[11]
Jaiku No Yes (channels) Yes ? ? No Yes Yes ? ?
NotePub Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
Qaiku No Yes Yes Yes ? No No Yes No No
Ohawo No Yes (O!Room) Yes Yes ? No No No No No
Twitter Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No No
  1. ^ Tagging in micro-blogging services is normally done with hash tags.
  2. ^ The ability to see whole conversation (multiple replies) on one flat page.
  3. ^ If this service has the ability to hide posts from the general public.

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 E-Mail SMS API Web XMPP E-Mail SMS API Feed
Facebook Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
identi.ca Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Woondy Yes No No No No Yes No No No No No
bentio.com Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Jaiku Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes
NotePub Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes ?
Qaiku Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes
Ohawo Yes No No No No Yes No No No No No
Twitter Yes No ? Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes Yes Yes

See also

References

  1. ^ Eldon, Eric. (2008-12-18). "2008 Growth Puts Facebook In Better Position to Make Money". VentureBeat. http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/18/2008-growth-puts-facebook-in-better-position-to-make-money/. Retrieved 2008-12-19. 
  2. ^ "Control Yourself, Inc. launches Identi.ca, the Open Microblogging Service". Control Yourself, Inc.. 2008-07-02. http://controlyourself.ca/2008/07/02/control-yourself-inc-launches-identica-the-open-microblogging-service/. Retrieved 2009-07-02. 
  3. ^ "Bentio, Inc. launches Bentio, the Microblogging Service". Bentio, Inc.. 2010-01-02. http://bentio.com/. Retrieved 2010-01-02. 
  4. ^ Bentio Terms of Service
  5. ^ Twitter - Where did the idea for Twitter come from?
  6. ^ - About Yammer
  7. ^ Woondy
  8. ^ Ohawo
  9. ^ freesocial.org
  10. ^ Identi.ca bookmarklet
  11. ^ How to share content, using Bentio bookmarklet
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