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 something 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 propagating 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 | Push Notifications | Google provides an XMPP Interface (Link via WaybackMachine) to their push notification service. It’s also been rumoured that push notifications are delivered to the device via a proprietary 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 | 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. | ||
| Movim | Movim is an XMPP-based distributed social networking platform. | ||
| Salut à Toi | Salut à Toi a Python based multi-frontend XMPP client featuring (micro)blogging, file sharing, games, etc. Libervia is its web frontend. |
