10 Open Source Microblogging Scripts

Posted in Freebies | On 1st December 2009 | 5 Comments

We all know what a big deal Twitter is, and the power it possesses for social marketing and networking. There is another side to it.. just plain old fashioned socialising without purpose.

There are a number of open source solutions for designers and developers to make their own site like Twitter for your business, pleasure or even to rival Twitter itself.

Here are 10 Open Sourced solutions for you to download and use, there are a mix of languages used, PHP, ASP, Ruby etc… and each site has a fair amount of documentation to get you started.

Asaph – PHP/MySQL

asa

Page Cookery – PHP/MySQL

cook

EchoWaves – Ruby On Rails

echo

Floopo – PHP/MySQL

floop

JaikuEngine – Python

jaik

Jisko - PHP & MySQL

jisk

Sharetronix - PHP/MySQL

share

StatusNet (formerly Laconica) – PHP/MySQL

status

Typepad Motion – Django/Python

tpad

Yonkly – ASP.NET

yonk


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5 Comments

  • bharani m
    December 1, 2009

    Wow! nice list. Most of the scripts that you have mentioned are new to me, i’ll go and check them out.
    Thanks for sharing.

  • zqjilove
    December 4, 2009

    好的清单 感谢您分享。

    (Good detailed list, thank you for sharing)

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