Alternatives and competitors
Sites like x.com
The 20 closest social media alternatives to x.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to x.com? The closest matches are twitter.com, Tumblr and Threads. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 22 ms
01 · Entity
About x.com
x.com
Wikidata: American social networking service founded in 2006
Summary by Claude
X (formerly Twitter) is a microblogging and social networking service where users publish short text, image and video posts, follow other accounts, and interact through replies, likes, reposts and direct messages.
- Who it’s for
- General public, journalists, public figures, brands
- Business model
- Advertising and subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to x.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to x.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to x.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
Startups challenging x.com
All challengersYounger companies going after x.com, often too small to rank among its nearest neighbours yet.
Bluesky vs X
Built on the open AT Protocol: take your account and followers to another server.
We can’t read x.com’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01 Very close cos 0.995
- 02
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Very close cos 0.914 - 03
social networking site operated by Meta Platforms
Very close cos 0.909 - 04 Very close cos 0.905
- 05 Very close cos 0.906
- 06
Bluesky
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
Very close cos 0.903 - 07
Featured Content on Myspace
Featured Content on Myspace
Very close cos 0.901 - 08
Grok
Grok is an AI assistant built by SpaceXSI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.
Very close cos 0.901 - 09
American question-and-answer website
Very close cos 0.896 - 10
Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу
Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.
Very close cos 0.897 - 11
TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
Very close cos 0.894 - 12
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Close cos 0.894 - 13
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Close cos 0.894 - 14 Close cos 0.892
- 15
VK.com | VK
Close cos 0.889 - 16
former Chinese social media service
Close cos 0.888 - 17
9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
Close cos 0.887 - 18
VK.com | VK
social networking service from Russia
Close cos 0.886 - 19
promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
Close cos 0.885 - 20
Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Amazon Publisher Services
- Amazon SES
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- Cloudflare
Close cos 0.885
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to x.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones x.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What x.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=11AE5005048CF2B40BD2AC26DA89C512596CF727581C499E2…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-sign-verification=c693a744ee2d282a36a43e6e724c5ea
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=sEij6tJOW11fVNrG
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=j6u0o1PTkobCXC84uEF/sWpIPtaZURBVYqKzmTv…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=6Xapa1BbHGcpSKAIcPHcZsxuKK2yK9FCn3OpZDgUBSs
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=BnCKbWESk142VKiGKHQ8PZkBfVoWYpsZxzl8Z95k0jB
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.16.156.0/22 ip4:199.59.148.0/22 include:_spf.google.co…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=Csk4bjCPFnJaDLLaKFUwCTFuUpCVvnYlAm2Tba0i
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what x.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on x.com 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on x.com 7/20
- Apple Business 6/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on x.com 6/20
- Zendesk · not on x.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on x.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on x.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on x.com 4/20
- PHP · not on x.com 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on x.com 4/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on x.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on x.com 3/20
- Comscore · not on x.com 3/20