🆚 Line vs. X
- 📈 X is much more popular than Line.
- 🌎 X is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Line is more popular in Thailand and Taiwan.
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Line is a Japanese instant messaging and social networking app often described as a super-app because it integrates services such as a digital wallet, news feed, digital comics, media streaming, and shopping.
It supports voice and video calls, group chats with up to 500 participants, a Timeline social feed, 
Line Pay payments, hidden chats with self-deleting messages, and mini-apps.
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.
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Thailand in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia 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 Uganda in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ghana in the Social Media category.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,624 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.