With the popularity of Twitter, the best social network micro-blogging website, Micro-blogging is becoming a hot subject in today’s Internet. On Twitter, using few words and spending less effort compared to the standard blogging, people can share knowledge, feelings, etc easily. But do you have any ideas about building a website just like another Twitter?

Of course, website cloning is not new thing for us, we have seen many website clones become visible after original concept becomes popular. Here are 5 open source microblogging applications to create your own:

JaikuEngine

Jaiku was the microblogging site of Google. However, they decided no longer to develop the code but make it open source under the name JaikuEngine.

Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine. Alo, there is an open source mobile client and frontend.

Yonkly

Yonkly is an Asp.Net-powered Twitter-clone for creating your own microblogging community network. Besides the open source version, it has a hosted and an advanced standalone version.

StatusNet

StatusNet (previously Laconica) is the engine which runs the popular microblogging site Identi.ca.

It is built with PHP/MySQL & offers a smooth usage as it is a widely used, mature application.

Jisko

Jisko is a PHP microblogging application that offers a Twitter-like API for developing it further.

Users can have their profile pages, message with each other easily & Jisko is compatible with mobile devices.

PageCookery

This is a simple micro-blogging platform developed by engineers from China. It offers an Ajaxed interface where users can comment to the entries easily.

In fact, there are still some other third applications that can help us creat a great micro-blogging site. If you have some other sources, please tell us in the comments below.

Among all the free blogging services, the best one may be Tuppy. You see, Tuppy is such a professional service that allows you to post any text, photos, music or video. What’s more, compared with those common blogging services, free amateur blogs Tuppy also allows your news to become visible on other social services at the moment of publication, which is really useful to help you organize your social networking relationship.

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