Comparison of microblogging and similar services
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
Service | Owner | Launched | Primary service | Software license | Content license | Multilingual | Ad-free |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Features
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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] |
Sina Weibo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
X (Twitter) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[24] | No[24] | Yes[25] |
- Tagging in micro-blogging services is often done with hashtags.
- The ability to see whole conversation (multiple replies) on one flat page.
- 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.
Service | Post via | Read via | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Web | XMPP | SMS | API | Micropub | Web | XMPP | SMS | API | Feed | ActivityPub | |||
Yes | No | Yes[26] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes[27] | 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[28] | 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 |
References
- "Diaspora AGPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub. 10 November 2022.
- Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Norwegian, Nynorsk (New Norwegian), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese Chinese, Tamil, Turkish
- Heath, Alex (October 19, 2021). "Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name". The Verge. Archived from the original on October 20, 2021. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
- "README file". Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
...under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- "GNU social localization". Transifex. 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
English translated to 69 languages
- "Control Yourself, Inc. launches Identi.ca, the Open Microblogging Service". Control Yourself, Inc. 2008-07-02. Archived from the original on April 10, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
- "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
- "mastodon/mastodon". Mastodon. 5 November 2022.
- English plus 92 translations listed in "Mastodon translations in Crowdin". Crowdin. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- Much of the client software is open source, but the code running the Micro.blog site is currently not released, as of 2023-01-02
- Various. "microddotblog on Github". Github. Micro.blog. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
- "Movim AGPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub. 13 December 2021.
- "Movim, License". GitHub. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- "movim localization". Transifex. 12 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
English translated to 58 languages
- "Steam Translation Server – Welcome". Valve. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
- Malone, Michael (2011-12-05). "News Chiefs 'Tout' Benefits of Social Video". Broadcasting & Cable.
- "About Yammer". Archived from the original on July 18, 2011.
- Wei, De Wei; Katanuma, Marika (April 11, 2023). "Twitter Company 'No Longer Exists,' Is Now Part of Musk's X". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on April 11, 2023. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
- "How to get a Facebook RSS feed | Zapier".
- "Friendica/Mods/Bookmarklet-share2friendica at develop · friendica/Friendica". GitHub.
- "Identi.ca bookmarklet". Archived from the original on July 20, 2009.
- "Mastodon Follow/Interact Bookmarklet".
- https://tumblebasics.tumblr.com/post/142541396279/basics-install-the-bookmarklet-for-easy-posting][https://github.com/RadLikeWhoa/bookmarklets/blob/17f7f8dda6f9365749a8c4a3d5e9ff70f8e0ee84/networks/Tumblr.json
- "Overview: Version 1.1 of the Twitter API". Twitter. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- https://github.com/iamrajiv/Twitter-Bookmarklet][https://github.com/RadLikeWhoa/bookmarklets/blob/17f7f8dda6f9365749a8c4a3d5e9ff70f8e0ee84/networks/Twitter.json
- "Share new posts on your Facebook page via Gmail email".
- "How to Share Facebook Posts with Non-Facebook Friends". 18 April 2018.
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