🆚 Facebook vs. X

📈 Facebook is noticeably more popular than X.
🌎 Facebook is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 X is more popular in Japan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Facebook

Type

Social media platform

About

Facebook is a social media platform owned by Meta.

It enables users to create profiles, post text, photos, and videos, join groups, follow pages, and interact through reactions and comments. With about 3 billion monthly active users, Facebook is currently the most popular social media platform in the world.

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.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States

Bastrop, Texas, United States

Website

facebook.com #2

x.com #12

Pricing

Free ✔️

Free version ✔️

X PremiumBasic$3/month
Premium$8/month
Premium+$16/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Facebook social media platform is 1.6 times more popular than X.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Facebook is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while X is more popular in Japan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Japan

Spain

France

Italy

India

Netherlands

Australia

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Social Media 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.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Facebook is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and blogs and wiki, while X is more commonly used on online shopping, sports, and games sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Entertainment

General News

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Online Shopping

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#16

#17