The tables below compare general and technical information for some notable active microblogging services, and also social network services that have status updates.
Service | Owner | Launched | Primary service | Software license | Content license | Multilingual | Ad-free |
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Diaspora | Open source | 2010-11 | social network | AGPLv3-or-later [1] | AGPLv3 | 31 [2] | Yes |
Meta [3] | 2004-02-04 | social network | Proprietary | own TOS | 112 | No | |
Friendica | Open source | 2010-07 | social network | AGPLv3-or-later | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
GNU social | Open source | 2010-03-03 | microblogging | AGPLv3-or-later [4] | CC BY 3.0 | 70 [5] | Yes |
identi.ca | Open source | 2008-07-02 [6] | microblogging | Apache v2 ( pump.io) | CC BY 3.0 | Yes | Yes |
Mastodon | Open source | 2016-10 [7] | microblogging | AGPLv3-or-later [8] | own TOS | 93 [9] | Yes |
Micro.blog | Riverfold Software | 2017-04-24 | microblogging | Mixed [10] [11] | Mixed | Yes | Yes |
Movim | Open source | 2011-03 | social network | AGPLv3-or-later [12] [13] | AGPLv3 | 59 [14] | Yes |
Steam community | Valve Corporation | 2003-09-12 | Proprietary | own TOS | 28 [15] | Yes | |
Tout | Tout | 2010-04 [16] | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Tumblr | Automattic | 2007 | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No |
Twister | Open source | 2013-12-30 | microblogging | MIT & BSD | own TOS | 2:en,ru | Yes |
Sina Weibo | Sina Corporation | 2009-08 | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No |
Yammer | Yammer, Inc. | 2008-09 [17] | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
X (Twitter) | X Corp. [18] | 2006-08 | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No |
An overview of integral features. Extras may be provided by third party applications/services, but are not listed here.
Service | Tagging [Note 1] | Groups | Conversation [Note 2] | Private [Note 3] | Private following list | RSS | Atom | Bookmarklet |
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Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No [19] | No | No | |
Friendica | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [20] |
GNU social | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [21] |
Mastodon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [22] |
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 [23] [24] |
Sina Weibo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
X (Twitter) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [25] | No [25] | Yes [26] |
Communication methods supported by the services. Extras may be provided by third party applications/services, but are not listed here.
Service | Post via | Read via | |||||||||||
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Web | XMPP | SMS | API | Micropub | Web | XMPP | SMS | API | Feed | ActivityPub | |||
Yes | No | Yes [27] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes [28] | 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 [29] | 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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