Statistically, Threads and Blusky still have a long way to go to catch up with X in the US The latest report from the Pew Research Center Released this week.

The research firm asked about these smaller services for the first time and found that they are each used by fewer than 1 in 10 American adults or less.

While X isn’t one of America’s biggest social networks, it’s still the leader in a small market of social apps focused on short, real-time text posts that appear in a vertical feed.

The space has seen increased competition since Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X in October 2022, as Musk’s changes to the platform’s content moderation policies and the site’s political shift to the right sent some users looking for alternatives.

In addition to the growth seen by open-source networks like Mastodon and Blusky, other startups launched Twitter competitors like Spill, Post, T2 (Pebble), and Hive. However, many of them have been closed.

Pew’s data indicates just how tight a hold X still has on the market.

Even Meta, with all its resources and platform power, has yet to beat its rival, X with Threads.

According to Pew, 21% of American adults said they’ve used X, compared to just 8% who used Threads, and 4% who used Bluesky. Meanwhile, Truth Social attracted 3% of American adults.

Despite this competition, the X hasn’t seen much of a slip in usage over the years, according to the report. For example, Pew’s Report on American adults’ social media Usage published early last year found that X was then used by 22% of US adults. His Shown in the 2021 report Twitter (before its rebranding to X) was used by 23% of US adults.

In other words, if X is decreasing, it’s been a long, slow drop.

This year’s report also found that YouTube and Facebook were the most used platforms by American adults, with 84% and 71% saying they used them, respectively.

Meanwhile, 50% of US adults said they used Instagram, 37% used TikTok, 32% used WhatsApp, 26% used Reddit, and 25% used Snapchat.

Pew noted that many of these services have seen their adoption increase over time. TikTok is up 21% in 2021, and Instagram, now used by half of American adults, is up 40% in 2021. A third of adults now use WhatsApp, up from 23 percent in 2021.

Reddit, which has become a darling of the AI ​​era thanks to multiple content licensing deals, was used by just 18 percent of American adults in 2021, compared to 26 percent today.

Of course, all these personalities look very different from us Adolescent Social Media Usewhere YouTube is number one, but is followed by a diverse set of top apps, including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.