Mobile users can use a Ping application to post content via SMS and MMS. Ping supports iPhone, iPod Touch, WAP and SMS text messaging for US, Canada and Europe. Seesmic acquired Ping in January 2010. It is regularly adding social networks to those it already supports. Some main supported social networks include: Twitter, Facebook, Ning, Delicious and Flickr. It is free to sign-up for the service. There have been over 100 web and desktop applications created by third party developers.
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