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Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter, founded a month before the latter. Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year. It was purchased by Google on October 9, 2007.

Key facts

Company.name
Jaiku
Company.logo
jaiku green logo.png
Company.type
Online microblogging service
Company.foundation
February 2006
Company.defunct
January 15, 2012
Company.location
Helsinki, Finland
Company.industry
Online services
Company.homepage
www.jaiku.com

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
business
Headquarters
Helsinki
Owned by
Google
Parent organization
Google
Industry
Internet
Legal form
limited company
Official website
jaiku.com
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inception
2006-01-01
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2012-01-15
language of work or name
English language
product or material produced
microblogging
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Encyclopedic overview

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Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter, founded a month before the latter. Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year. It was purchased by Google on October 9, 2007.

When Jaiku Ltd was an independent company, its head office was in Helsinki.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jaiku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.