Comparison of microblogging services

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

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

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
LocalByUs.com	Infinut Software Inc.	March 2011	micro-blogging	proprietary	-	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
Facebook	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	No	Yes	No	?	?
identi.ca	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes[9]
bentio.com	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes[10]
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 (via third-party sites and/or apps)	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

Communicating with the services.

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	Yes (via third-party sites and/or apps)	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (via third-party sites and/or apps)	?	Yes	Yes	Yes

See also

• Microblogging
• OpenMicroBlogging
• Microblogging in China

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. ^ Identi.ca bookmarklet
10. ^ How to share content, using Bentio bookmarklet