social.md

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Realtime Social

XMPP's core messaging can be extended to create group sharing and social networking apps (for example ATOM-formatted feeds).

Three features make XMPP a great choice for powering social projects:

Firstly, because each user connects with their username (in XMPP-speak, their JID), a social service can always be sure that only the right user is getting the right information. This baked-in security means XMPP is particularly a great fit for building secure group sharing applications.

Secondly, XMPP's realtime nature means users of a social service will receive immediate updates when another user does somethign that involves them (for example: you were @mentioned in tybalts-party@capulet.lit).

Finally XMPP's publish-subscribe constructs make a great foundation for building activity-feed type applications. Users can post to their feed, and XMPP will take care of propogating the updates to that user's subscribers in a secure way.

Projects using XMPP Social

All of these projects make use of XMPP to enhance their social networking functionality.

Users	Company	Use	Description
~1.5 billion	Google	Push Notifications	Google provides an XMPP Interface to their push notification service. It's also been rumoured that push notifications are delivered to the device via a propriatary binary XMPP protocol.
~500 million	Apple	Push Notifications	Apple uses XMPP to deliver push notifications to client devices.
	Catapush	Push Notifications	Reliable and traceable Push Notification service on dedicated XMPP channel for Android/iOS/Windows.
	Buddycloud Core		The Buddycloud Core messaging stack is a set of social services that include help developers build a complete social application and includes user-onboarding, content recommendation and media sharing features.
	Jappix		Jappix a Javascript XMPP client with social features.
	Movim		Movim is a PHP based distributed social networking platform.
	Salut à Toi		Salut à Toi a Python based multi-frontends XMPP client featuring (micro)blogging, file sharing, games, etc. Libervia is its web frontend.