micro.blog is a

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and

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service created by Manton Reece, the first large multi-user

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service to support the

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and

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standards published by the

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. Micro.blog has features similar to

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Twitter

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, and provides for posting status updates, articles, photos, short podcasts, and video. It was launched on April 24, 2017, after a

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campaign that reached its funding target within one day. The service was built using Jekyll, and users can post using hosted accounts, then use

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RSS

feeds to export their posts, and syndicate them into the network from other websites they run. Users can also import their posts from

and the defunct microblogging service App.net. micro.blog is specifically designed to be a "POSSE" based publishing model - this is an acronym for "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere." This publishing model involves the end user posting content to their own domain name based site first, then using web standards to syndicate to multiple other social networks and platforms. Currently micro.blog supports syndication to Facebook Pages, as well as to Twitter, Facebook, Medium, LinkedIn,

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, and

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Tumblr

accounts. It also supports importing from data exported from WordPress, and supports cross-posting from Instagram to micro.blog. The web hosting service

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supported micro.blog's Kickstarter campaign, and announced their intent to help customers create independent microblogs hosted at DreamHost that are compatible with micro.blog.

Client applications

* Wavelength * Sunlit 2.0 * Icro 1.0

References

External links

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Micro.blog page on Indieweb wiki
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Client applications

See also

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