Company type | Online microblogging service |
---|---|
Industry | Online services |
Founded | February 2006 |
Defunct | January 15, 2012 |
Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
Website | www.jaiku.com |
Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter,[1] founded a month before the latter.[2] Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri Engeström[3] and Petteri Koponen from Finland[4] and launched in July of that year. It was purchased by Google on October 9, 2007.[5][6]
When Jaiku Ltd was an independent company, its head office was in Helsinki.[7]