Comparison of microblogging and similar services
Appearance
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 |
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GNU social | Open source | 2010-03-03 | microblogging | AGPLv3-or-later[1] | CC-BY 3.0 | 70[2] | Yes |
Diaspora | Open source | 2010-11 | social network | AGPLv3-or-later[3] | AGPLv3 | 31[4] | Yes |
Facebook, Inc.[5] | 2004-02-04 | social network | Proprietary | own TOS | 112 | No | |
Micro.blog | Riverfold Software | 2017-04-24 | microblogging | Mixed[6][7] | Mixed | Yes | Yes |
Movim | Open source | 2011-03 | social network | AGPLv3-or-later[8][9] | AGPLv3 | 59[10] | Yes |
identi.ca | Open source | 2008-07-02 [11] | microblogging | Apache v2 (pump.io) | CC-BY 3.0 | Yes | Yes |
Tout | Tout | 2010-04 [12] | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Twitter, Inc. | 2006-08 [13] | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No | |
Yammer | Yammer, Inc. | 2008-09 [14] | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Mastodon | Open source | 2016-10[15] | microblogging | AGPLv3-or-later[16] | own TOS | 93[17] | Yes |
Twister | Open source | 2013-12-30 | microblogging | MIT & BSD | own TOS | 2:en,ru | Yes |
Tumblr | Automattic | 2007 | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No |
Steam community | Valve Corporation | 2003-09-12 | Proprietary | own TOS | 28[18] | Yes | |
Friendica | Open source | 2010-07 | social network | AGPLv3-or-later | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
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 | ? | |
GNU social | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[19] |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[20] | No[20] | No | |
Mastodon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Movim | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Micro.blog | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No |
Steam community | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Friendica | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
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 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
GNU social | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Mastodon | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Movim | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
micro.blog | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Friendica | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
See also
References
- ^ "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
- ^ "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
- ^ Eldon, Eric. (2008-12-18). "2008 Growth Puts Facebook In Better Position to Make Money". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
- ^ 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
- ^ "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.
- ^ "mastodon/mastodon". Mastodon. 5 November 2022.
- ^ English plus 92 translations listed in "Mastodon translations in Crowdin". Crowdin. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ^ "Steam Translation Server – Welcome". Valve. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
- ^ Identi.ca bookmarklet Archived July 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Overview: Version 1.1 of the Twitter API". Twitter. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.