Cloob
Social network service | |
Available in | Persian |
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Owner | SabaIdea[1] |
URL | www |
Commercial | yes |
Registration | yes (not compulsory) |
Launched | December 21, 2004[2] |
Current status | Deactivated on Friday, August 6, 2021 |
Cloob.com was a
Some of the services consume virtual money. For example, advanced search in community discussions, advanced member search, receipt for email messages, list of profile visitors and a few other services will use different amounts of members' available virtual money. It is possible to buy virtual money or transfer it to other users.
Cloob was censored on March 7, 2008 (the period of Parliament elections) by the government of Iran. However, after what the Cloob management called "removal of illegal and controversial content", access was restored to Iranian internet users on April 29, 2008. On December 25, 2009 it was once again censored and remained so for some time, but as of 2011, Cloob appears to be in working order once again.
In 2021, Cloob shut down citing they were worn out having to fight censorship and the government letting foreign companies such as instagram take over.[4]
References
- ^ Jafari, Hamed (30 August 2015). "Even Our President Is More Social than You!". TechRasa. Hamed Jafari. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ "کلوب دات کام - درباره ما". Archived from the original on 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ "Has Iran's Internet Policy Changed with Rouhani?". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
- ^ "Iran's replacement to Facebook Cloob.com shuts shop". World wide News. 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
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