Blip.pl (or just Blip) was a Polish social networking internet service, founded in May 2007. It had microblogging capability. Soon after being established, it was purchased by Gadu-Gadu S.A in June 2007. Three hundred and twenty-nine thousand people visited the site in June 2009. In October 2009 the number of posts on the network exceeded ten million. By 4 December 2010 the service had 80,000 users. Notable Polish celebrities and politicians, such as and Grzegorz Napieralski, used the site. The service was used as a communication channel of various governmental services, for example . Blip was closed on the 2nd of September 2013, following a two-month advance notice. During this period, users could choose to migrate their accounts to Wykop, which hosts a similar microblogging service.
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