Real-Time Blogs

What’s This About?

WordPress.com delivers blog posts and comments in real time. You can subscribe to your favorite blogs and receive posts and comments the instant they are published.

How Does it Work?

Jabber (XMPP) is an open instant-messaging protocol used by millions of people daily. At WordPress.com we use Jabber to instantly send new blog posts and comments to subscribers. Jabber support is available in instant messaging clients like the ones listed below:

Adium for Mac OS X
Pidgin for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux
Messages for Mac OS X
Psi-IM for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux

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Our Jabber service is open to anyone with a WordPress.com account.

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What’s This About?

How Does it Work?

Adium for Mac OS X

Pidgin for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux

Messages for Mac OS X

Psi-IM for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux

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