4 %%site.name%% is a *microblogging* service -- a way for you to tell
5 your friends and fans about what you're doing, wherever you are. You
6 can post small (140 characters or less) texts to the site, and all
7 your friends who "subscribe" to your posts will receive messages from
10 The code is available under a Free Software/Open Source license, which
11 means that you can set up your /own/ microblogging service. It
12 supports the [OpenMicroBlogging](http://openmicroblogging.org/)
13 standard, so that people using different services can subscribe to
14 each others notices with as little work as necessary.