Status


Description

The "status" Object type represents a human-readable update of the author's situation, mood, location or other status.

A status is similar in structure to a note, but carries the additional meaning that the content is primarily describing something its author is doing, feeling or experiencing.

Link to atom spec: http://martin.atkins.me.uk/specs/activitystreams/activityschema#anchor9

Derives From

Note

Properties

Property name
Type
Required
Property Description
JSON field
Atom field
RSS field
mood mood no How the creator of the status was feeling   context:mood  
location location no     geo:point or ??  
content
string
yes
 The entire status
  atom:content
 
owner
object
no
 Author of the status if different than activity actor
userid for now but needs to be global
atom:author
 
id
string
yes
Unique id for the object. Must be different than the activity id
id
atom:id
 
url
URI
yes
Permalink to the status. Usually allows commenting on this page and shows existing comments
links[0] ?
atom:link rel="alternate"
 
published W3CDTF timestamp no Time the status was created published or time ? atom:published  
updated W3CDTF timestamp no Last modification time updated atom:updated  
source object no     atom:source  
related links array no Related links links atom:link rel="related"  

Verbs

URI

http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/status

Examples

Real world examples of "status" posts:

 

 

Notes

If a status contains links as most of them do the publisher should include them in the related links array. Also if the note is a status update then the Status object type should be used.

Open Questions

Implementations

AOL, Yahoo Messenger, MySpace, Facebook, Messenger

Maintainers

Who maintains this page, or should be contacted if there are questions or feedback?