Comparison of microblogging services
The tables below compare general and technical information for some notable active microblogging services and social network services that have status updates.
General information
Service | Owner | Launched | Primary service | Software license | Content license | Multilingual | Ad-free |
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GNU social | Open source | 2010 | Microblogging | AGPLv3 | CC-BY 3.0 | Yes | Yes |
Diaspora | Open source | 2010-11 | social network | AGPLv3 | AGPLv3 | Yes | Yes |
Facebook, Inc.[1] | 2004-02 | social network | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No | |
Gab | Gab AI, Inc. | 2016-08 | microblogging | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
micro.blog | Riverfold Software | 2017-04 | microblogging | ??? | ??? | Yes | Yes |
identi.ca | Status Net, Inc. | 2008-07 [2] | microblogging | Apache v2 (pump.io) | CC-BY 3.0 | Yes | Yes |
Tout | Tout | 2010-04 [3] | microblogging | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Twitter, Inc. | 2006-08 [4] | microblogging | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No | |
Yammer | Yammer, Inc. | 2008-09 [5] | microblogging | proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Mastodon | Open source | 2016-10[6] | microblogging | AGPLv3 | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Misskey | Open source | 2014 | microblogging | AGPLv3 | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Pleroma | Open source | 2017 | microblogging | AGPLv3 | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Twister | Open source | 2013 | microblogging | MIT and BSD licenses | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Twtxt | Open source | 2016 | microblogging | MIT | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Tumblr | Automattic | 2007 | 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tumblr | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | ? | |
identi.ca / GNU social | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes[7] |
Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[8] | No[8] | No | |
Mastodon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | No |
Misskey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
micro.blog | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No |
- Tagging in micro-blogging services is normally 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 | |||
Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
identi.ca / GNU social | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Mastodon | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Misskey | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
micro.blog | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Pleroma | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
References
- Eldon, Eric. (2008-12-18). "2008 Growth Puts Facebook In Better Position to Make Money". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
- "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.
- Malone, Michael (2011-12-05). "News Chiefs 'Tout' Benefits of Social Video". Broadcasting & Cable.
- Twitter - Where did the idea for Twitter come from?
- - About Yammer Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
- "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
- Identi.ca bookmarklet Archived July 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- "Overview: Version 1.1 of the Twitter API". Twitter. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
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