Former Trump spox spokesman Jason Miller has been launching the voice of a new Trump-based social media platform for months. The pre-held had some false starts, the enthusiasm remained assumed.
Now, the theorized service has a kind of reality, as Miller’s new GETTR platform was unveiled on a Thursday, probably out of nowhere.
The official launch is scheduled for the Fourth of July, according to reports; an apparent thematic resolution for the service that is presented (such as Talking and other social media alternatives) as the last safe haven for free speech on an Internet controlled through oligarchs and dictators of big tech. In addition to today and the July 4 launch, the app itself has been available at Apple and Google outlets since June, a fact that most of us only discovered today through Politico.
For a site that took the plunge without warning, there were already a strangely high number of fans on some accounts, as noted through GIGN’s Reed Richardson, formerly of Mediaite, in some of the early tweet reactions.
– Reed F. Richardson (@reedfrich) July 1, 2021
– Reed F. Richardson (@reedfrich) July 1, 2021
The numbers fit so closely, for both Murtaugh and fighting veteran Sean Parnell, that it’s clear that the total includes his number of followers on Twitter.
Tweets are also imported, as happens from time to time between services. In the following, you can see that the GETTR setting has also been implemented in the retweeted CNN tweet, CNN does not have a GETTR account
Whether it’s by design, or serious problems, or simply a sense of transience ahead of Sunday’s difficult launch, we can’t say.
What WE CAN say is that many other people had A LOT to say about the launch of GETTR, especially not among those other people: Donald Trump.
Trump did not approve or promote the launch of Miller’s service, and shortly after the rumor was generated, we discovered that not only was he not involved, but he might even be contemplating a competing service.
– Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 1, 2021
However, there appears to be an automated Trump account that sends messages that Trump is emailing lately (in fact, dozens of Trump accounts). There’s a similar automated account for Trump on GAB, so again, who knows?
There are other things to keep in mind.
– Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) July 1, 2021
By accessing those accounts through GETTR, I now locate images of Biden instead of archie images, and one of them had a message that said “Biden won” before it was deleted.
But no quirk, clutter or the like stopped the jokes from flowing, that’s for sure. Some are more evil than others, but it is intelligent freedom of expression.
In the DPRK, these socially poisonous elements are reformed through joyful work. Pic. twitter. com/89vPw6WBli
– DPRK Information Service (@DPRK_News) 1 July 2021
– Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) July 1, 2021
– David Gardner (@byDavidGardner) July 1, 2021
There are many, many, MANY examples of this joke.
– Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 1, 2021
– Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) July 1, 2021
– Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) July 1, 2021
and so on.
– Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) July 1, 2021
– Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 1, 2021
– TrivWorks (@TrivWorks) July 1, 2021
– Aisha Sultan (@AishaS) 1 July 2021
(Okay, I finished, I had to remove this from my system, sorry). )Pic. twitter. com/RV65fu4a7a
– Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) July 1, 2021
Jason Miller: I like Twitter darkly more horrible
Designer: Are you sure? That’s what all white citizens do. . .
Jason Miller: LIKE TWITTER BUT MORE
– SchemeToDefraudHat (@Popehat) July 1, 2021
We may move on, but I think you see the idea.
Still, you never know, it can take off as a gangbuster. After looking at it myself, I can say that it looks a lot like Twitter in terms of functionality and reflects some of the users, their number of followers, their verified status, their actual tweets, and the way you interact with everything.
It’s also remarkably similar to Twitter in some other way: when you walk away from the PC and think about it for a few minutes, you still can’t nod and ask yourself what we all do with our lives in those days.
A trick we know? conseils@mediaite. com