🆚 Mastodon vs. X
- 📈 X is much more popular than Mastodon.
- 🌍 X is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XType
Social media platform
Social media platform
About
Mastodon is a decentralized social network running on independent servers and powered by 
Mastodon open-source software.
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
Berlin, Germany
Bastrop, Texas, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free version ✔️
X Premium
Basic$3/month
Premium$8/month
Premium+$16/month
Categories
Social Media › Rank #25
Social Media › Rank #3
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The X social media platform is 122 times more popular than Mastodon.
Total websites
Market share
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
X is more popular than Mastodon in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
Germany
France
India
Netherlands
Canada
Italy
Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Sweden in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Belgium in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Ireland in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in France 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.
X is more popular than Mastodon in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Sports
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Threads🗃️ About This Data
- 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.