Gravatar
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Gravatar (a portmanteau of globally recognized avatar) is a service for providing globally unique avatars and was created by Tom Preston-Werner. Since 2007, it has been owned by Automattic, having integrated it into their WordPress.com blogging platform.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Gravatar
- Website.logo
- Logo Gravatar.png
- Website.url
- gravatar.com
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.type
- Avatar hosting
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.owner
- Automattic
- Website.author
- Tom Preston-Werner
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Website
- Founded by
- Tom Preston-Werner
- Owned by
- Automattic
- Official website
- en.gravatar.com
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/gravatar
- Alexa rank
- 5524
- service status information URL
- automatticstatus.com
- Commons category
- Gravatar
- translation contribution URL
- translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Gravatar
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Functionality
- History
- Security concerns and data breaches
- References
- External links
Gravatar (a portmanteau of globally recognized avatar) is a service for providing globally unique avatars and was created by Tom Preston-Werner. Since 2007, it has been owned by Automattic, having integrated it into their WordPress.com blogging platform.
== Functionality ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gravatar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.