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Microsoft Launches MSN Juku - Twitter Like Service in China
02 Dec 2009
Microsoft has launched MSN Juku, a twitter-like service in China powered by Windows Live Messenger.
The new service, presently in beta, lets users post 140-character messages to an update screen that slowly scrolls old messages to the right. The service automatically links users with people on their Live Messenger contact lists, whose updates also appear on the scrolling timeline.
Juku users can play simple games and earn prizes such as new face icons to post in messages. Users can also upload a profile picture, visit the pages of other users and add them as friends.
The new MSN service is likely an effort by Microsoft to win more users for its social-networking products as well as its instant-messaging service.
As per their officials, Juku is only available in China and that there are no plans to release it in other markets at this time.
MSN China, the Microsoft joint venture that developed the new product, insists that it is not a microblog service.
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Microsoft, msn juku, twitter, msn china
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