OpenMicroBlogging is a deprecated communication protocol that allows different microblogging services to interoperate with each other.
This enables the creation of a federation of new communities,[1] as an individual or organization of any size can host a service that supports the protocol.
OpenMicroBlogging utilizes the OAuth and Yadis protocols and does not depend on any central authority.
[3] The original implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the Laconica software, which changed its name to StatusNet in August 2009.
A third-party implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the OpenMicroBlogger software.