🆚 Medium vs. X

Medium is an online publishing platform that allows writers to share articles, stories, and ideas with a built-in audience and content discovery system.

It provides a minimalist editor for long-form writing, supports publications for multi-author content, newsletters, and distributes content through algorithmic and editorial recommendations.

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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.

• 🔥 12nd most popular in India in the Social Media category.
• 🔥 13rd most popular in Vietnam in the Social Media category.
• 🔥 13rd most popular in Turkey in the Social Media category.
• 🔥 14th most popular in the Philippines in the Social Media category.
• 🔥 14th most popular in Iran 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.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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