Gadu-Gadu (

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for "chit-chat"; commonly known as GG or gg) is a Polish

instant messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and trigge ...

client Client(s) or The Client may refer to: * Client (business) * Client (computing), hardware or software that accesses a remote service on another computer * Customer or client, a recipient of goods or services in return for monetary or other valuable ...

using a

proprietary protocol In telecommunications, a proprietary protocol is a communications protocol owned by a single organization or individual. Intellectual property rights and enforcement Ownership by a single organization gives the owner the ability to place restricti ...

. Gadu-Gadu was the most popular IM service in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

, with over 15 million registered accounts and approximately 6.5 million users online daily. Gadu-Gadu's casual gaming portal had some 500,000 active users at the end of March 2009. Users send up to 300 million messages per day. Gadu-Gadu is financed by the display of advertisements. The developer is based in

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, Poland and the company is wholly owned by a Polish company England.pl.

Features

Gadu-Gadu uses its own proprietary protocol. As with ICQ, users are identified by unique serial numbers. Protocol's features include status messages,

file sharing File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include r ...

, and

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. Users may

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and embed images in messages. Since client version 6.0, an experimental secure connection mode can be used. The official client provides over 150

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, allows grouping contacts, sending

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and integrates with other services ran by the same company: a virtual Internet dial-up, a

social networking A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for an ...

site MojaGeneracja.pl (defunct since 5 November 2012) and an

internet radio Online radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio, IP radio, Internet radio) is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted ...

Open.fm. Gadu-Gadu allows its users to add personal information to a publicly searchable directory. Language options include English and Polish. There is also a browser version available.

Blip.pl

Blip.pl (or just Blip) was a Polish

internet service, founded in May 2007 and currently owned by Gadu-Gadu. It had

microblogging Microblogging is a form of social network that permits only short posts. They "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links",. Retrieved June 5, 2014 which may be the major reason for ...

capability. Soon after being established, it was purchased by Gadu-Gadu S.A in June 2007. About 329,000 people visited the site in June 2009. In October 2009 the number of posts on the network exceeded ten million. By 4 December 2010 the service had 80,000 users. Notable Polish celebrities and politicians, such as

Lech Wałęsa Lech Wałęsa (; ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratica ...

and

Grzegorz Napieralski Grzegorz Bernard Napieralski (pronounced ; born March 18, 1974) is a Polish left-wing politician. He is an MP (member of the Sejm) and was chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) from 2008 to 2011. Education and political career Napierals ...

, used the site. The service was used as a communication channel of various governmental services, for example ZUS. Blip was closed on 2 September 2013, following a two-month advance notice. During this period, users could choose to migrate their accounts to

Wykop wykop.pl is a Polish social networking internet service, founded on December 28, 2005. It is modeled after the American website digg.com (''wykop'' in the Polish language means ''dig out''). The basic idea behind wykop.pl is the collection of pot ...

, which hosts a similar microblogging service.

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Features

Blip.pl

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