🆚 Pixiv vs. X

Pixiv is a Japanese online art community where artists share and discover illustrations, manga, novels, and animation-inspired artwork, with a strong focus on anime, game, and fan art culture.

It features tagging and ranking systems, bookmarking and recommendation tools, commissioned artwork requests, fan subscriptions, digital and physical merchandise sales, and Pixiv Sketch for browser-based drawing and livestreaming.

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.

• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Design Portfolios category.
• 🔥 15th most popular in Japan 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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