September 10, 2008 Those of us in the XMPP community have touted the benefits of our protocol for microblogging for some time. Even before Identi.ca and Laconica, Peter Saint-Andre and Joe Hildebrand drafted a basic microblogging XEP. Microblogging looks a lot like an impromptu Multi-User Chat and it is clearly a Publish-Subscribe based service. With XMPP you get federation for free; there is no n