Comparison of microblogging and similar services

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The tables below compare general and technical information for some notable active microblogging services, and also social network services that have status updates.

General information

More information Service, Owner ...
Service Owner Launched Primary service Software license Content license Multilingual Ad-free Federated
Bluesky Open source 2021-10-21 social network MIT own TOS 19 Yes Yes
Diaspora Open source 2010-11 social network AGPLv3-or-later[1] AGPLv3 31[2] Yes Yes
Facebook Meta[3] 2004-02-04 social network Proprietary own TOS 112 No No
Friendica Open source 2010-07 social network AGPLv3-or-later own TOS Yes Yes Yes
GNU social Open source 2010-03-03 microblogging AGPLv3-or-later[4] CC BY 3.0 70[5] Yes Yes
identi.ca Open source 2008-07-02 [6] microblogging Apache v2 (pump.io) CC BY 3.0 Yes Yes Yes
Mastodon Open source 2016-10[7] microblogging AGPLv3-or-later[8] own TOS 93[9] Yes Yes
Micro.blog Riverfold Software 2017-04-24 microblogging Mixed[10][11] Mixed Yes Yes Yes
Movim Open source 2011-03 social network AGPLv3-or-later[12][13] AGPLv3 59[14] Yes Yes
Pleroma Open source 2019-02-22 microblogging AGPLv3[15] CC BY 4.0 37[16] Yes Yes
Steam community Valve Corporation 2003-09-12 Proprietary own TOS 28[17] Yes No
Threads Meta 2023-07-05 microblogging Proprietary own TOS 31 Yes Partly
Tout Tout 2010-04 [18] microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes Yes No
Tumblr Automattic 2007 microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes No No
Twister Open source 2013-12-30 microblogging MIT & BSD own TOS 2:en,ru Yes Partly
Weibo Sina Corporation 2009-08 microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes No No
Viva Engage Yammer, Inc. 2008-09 [19] microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes Yes No
X (Twitter) X Corp.[20] 2006-08 microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes No No
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Features

An overview of integral features. Extras may be provided by third-party applications/services, but are not listed here.

More information Service, Tagging ...
Service Tagging[Note 1] Groups Conversation[Note 2] Private[Note 3] Private following list RSS Atom Bookmarklet
Bluesky Yes No Yes No No Yes No Yes
Facebook Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No[21] No No
Friendica Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[22]
GNU social Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[23]
Mastodon Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[24]
Micro.blog Yes No Yes No ? Yes No No
Movim Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Steam community Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
Tumblr Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes[25][26]
Weibo Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
X (Twitter) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No[27] No[27] Yes[28]
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  1. [1]
    Tagging in micro-blogging services is often done with hashtags.
  2. [2]
    The ability to see whole conversation (multiple replies) on one flat page.
  3. [3]
    If this service has the ability to hide posts from the general public.

Posting and reading

Communication methods supported by the services. Extras may be provided by third-party applications/services, but are not listed here.

More information Service, Post via ...
Service Post via Read via
Web XMPP Email SMS API Micropub Web XMPP Email SMS API Feed ActivityPub
Facebook Yes No Yes[29] Yes Yes No Yes No Yes[30] Yes Yes No No
Friendica Yes No No No Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes
GNU social Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Mastodon Yes No No No Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes
Micro.blog Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[31] No Yes Yes Yes
Movim Yes Yes No No Yes ? Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No
X (Twitter) Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No
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