LiveJournal

LiveJournal
	LiveJournal homepage
Type of site	Blog hosting
Available in	33 languages
Owner	Rambler Media Group
Created by	Brad Fitzpatrick
URL	livejournal.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional (required to post)
Launched	April 15, 1999
Current status	Online
Written in	Perl

LiveJournal (Russian: Живой Журнал),^[3] stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary.^[4] American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities.^[5] In January 2005, American blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick.

Six Apart sold LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP Media in 2007; the service continued to operate out of the U.S. via a California-based subsidiary, LiveJournal, Inc., but began moving some operations to Russian offices in 2009. In December 2016, the service relocated its servers to Russia, and in April 2017, LiveJournal changed its terms of service to conform to Russian law. As with other social networks, a wide variety of public figures use the service, as do political pundits, who use it for political commentary, particularly in Russia,^[3] where it partners with the online newspaper Gazeta.ru.

^ "LiveJournal.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Archived from the original on 2020-04-13. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
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^ ^a ^b Greenall, Robert (2012-03-01). "LiveJournal: Russia's unlikely internet giant". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
^ Hacker, Scot (2003). "Put Weblogs to Work". Macworld. Vol. 9.
^ "LiveJournal FAQ: How did LiveJournal get started? Who runs it now?". Livejournal.com. 2009-06-21. Archived from the original on 2006-03-18. Retrieved 2010-03-29.

[1] "LiveJournal.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Archived from the original on 2020-04-13. Retrieved 2016-12-09.

[NYT-2] Cite error: The named reference NYT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[bbc-zhezhe-3] Greenall, Robert (2012-03-01). "LiveJournal: Russia's unlikely internet giant". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2012-03-05.

[macworld_weblogs-4] Hacker, Scot (2003). "Put Weblogs to Work". Macworld. Vol. 9.

[FAQ4-5] "LiveJournal FAQ: How did LiveJournal get started? Who runs it now?". Livejournal.com. 2009-06-21. Archived from the original on 2006-03-18. Retrieved 2010-03-29.

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