🆚 Discord vs. X

Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform that allows users to communicate via text chat, voice, and video.

It organizes users into persistent communities called servers containing categorized text and voice channels, supports role-based permissions for access control, includes bots through a public API, allows direct and group messaging, and offers features such as threads and screen sharing.

X, formerly known as Twitter, is a social media platform that allows users to post short messages, images, and videos.

It supports posting ("posts" replaced "tweets" after rebranding), reposting, live audio Spaces, direct messages, hashtags, mentions, and an AI assistant called Grok that can reply to posts, answer questions, and generate images.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Instant Messaging category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Instant Messaging category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Instant Messaging category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Instant Messaging category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.

• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Social Media category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Social Media category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Nigeria in the Social Media category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Ghana in the Social Media category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Uganda in the Social Media category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Discord technology profile
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