A real go-GETTR: Former Trump aide tries to batter Twitter by ripping off its UI
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/07/02/gettr/
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The app – known as [2]GETTR , not to be confused with Turkey-based groceries app [3]Getir – has actually been available on the Google and Apple app stores since mid-June, but had only been downloaded a thousand or so times on each until it was soft-launched yesterday (1 July).
The app's official launch day will be 4 July, which will undoubtedly lead to hugely positive coverage from any tech journalists who have to cover it, instead of being at home celebrating Independence Day with their families.
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In [5]a pre-launch interview on the US right-wing news network Newsmax, Miller claimed that GETTR was going to "blow away anything on social media right now."
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"Here is a thing I think that has really stymied a lot of conservatives in our efforts previously: we haven't had a lot of good products," he said, seemingly oblivious to the fact that conservatives have had access to exactly the same products as liberals, libertarians, greens, communists and everybody else up until this point. They just never paid enough attention to the terms and conditions.
The main selling point for Miller's new venture seems to be that GETTR will have fewer pesky rules to catch out well-meaning and under-represented right-wing voices, an aspiration it shares with Parler, Gab, Frank, Minds, and seemingly dozens of others. However, GETTR's terms are actually as restrictive as Twitter's, if not more so:
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As YouTuber JustALazyGamer [9]has pointed out , this effectively just makes it Twitter without the porn.
If Twitter is its main rival and the internet is lacking "good product," you would expect the new site to be radically different. But instead GETTR shares a great deal in common with the more established microblogging site, effectively cloning Twitter's UI and layout while missing out some of the features. This makes Miller's suggestion that conservative voices were just lacking a certain special product to really allow them to shine all the more odd.
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GETTR users can also import all of their Twitter tweets and contacts. Early on, this fact led to some of the bigger accounts [11]having more followers than there were registered users on the site, a bug which has since been fixed.
The platform has a number of other odd quirks when compared with its obvious main rival. To begin with, the maximum length of posts is 777 characters rather than 280. This seemingly completely arbitrary number is probably intended to allow posters – overly verbose former presidents, perhaps – to express themselves more fully than they might have been able to on Twitter.
Unfortunately, the number 777 also happens to be the symbol of the [12]Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging or Afrikaner Resistance Movement, a South African white supremacist neo-Nazi organisation. This may be a simple coincidence, of course, but it does seem like a bit of a red flag that nobody noticed it.
[13]Prez Biden narrowly escapes cicada assassination attempt, hunkers down in Cornwall
[14]China's latest online crackdown targets mean girl online fan clubs that turn toxic
[15]US Supreme Court rules teens cussing out schools on social media is protected speech
[16]Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost?
[17]TikTok seeks injunction to halt Trump ban, claims it would break America's own First and Fifth Amendments
Users can also post videos of up to three minutes in length, compared to 140 seconds on Twitter.
As yet, the former rambler-in-chief has not set up an account on the platform, which seems a little unkind given that it appears to have been set up mostly with him in mind. Donald Trump has made no secret that he has been looking for another place to deign with his bombastic presence since he was booted off of Twitter, [18]Facebook and Instagram , parts of Reddit, and [19]most of social media following the Capitol Riots in January 2021.
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"I will tell you that 'Real Donald Trump' is reserved for the 45th president, my favorite president, so if he does decide to join the platform then we'd love to have him," Miller said in another Newsmax interview [21]on Thursday night (1 July) , possibly more in hope than expectation.
Trump has struggled to find a suitable home for his online primal scream therapy, having started a blog in May, [22]only to close it down weeks later due to an absence of traffic. His organisation is reputedly looking to either start or buy into a new social media home for the former president, preferably on terms that would make his involvement profitable, rather than just helpful to his public profile in the run-up to a possible tilt at the 2024 presidential election.
That said, there is no guarantee that Trump will even have the means or the personal liberty to conduct such a campaign following the tax charges levelled yesterday against the Trump Organisation and its CFO Allen Weisselberg by the Manhattan District Attorney.
Given that the allegations include suggestions that the Trump Organisation [23]kept the details of its tax violations on a secret "internal spreadsheet," it might be better for the former president and everybody around him if he steers clear of technology altogether in future. ®
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[1] https://www.newsweek.com/ex-trump-aide-accuses-jason-millers-attorney-sending-her-sexist-emails-1531466
[2] https://gettr.com/
[3] https://getir.uk/
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/bootnotes&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YN@Mf9X1lI35ERHHODORwQAAAIQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx4u9VKCuwI
[6] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/bootnotes&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YN@Mf9X1lI35ERHHODORwQAAAIQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[7] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/bootnotes&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33YN@Mf9X1lI35ERHHODORwQAAAIQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[8] https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/07/02/gettr_terms_and_conditions.jpg
[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM6FBsbopoc
[10] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/bootnotes&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YN@Mf9X1lI35ERHHODORwQAAAIQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[11] https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/01/gettr-trump-social-media-platform-497606
[12] https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02730/05lv03188/06lv03191.htm
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/10/biden_cicada_attack/
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/china_cyberbullying_fan_quan_crackdown/
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/25/us_supreme_court_rules_teens/
[16] https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/11/trump_social_media/
[17] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/24/tiktok_files_injunction/
[18] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/04/facebook_drops_trump/
[19] https://www.axios.com/platforms-social-media-ban-restrict-trump-d9e44f3c-8366-4ba9-a8a1-7f3114f920f1.html
[20] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/bootnotes&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33YN@Mf9X1lI35ERHHODORwQAAAIQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[21] https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jason-miller-sadly-begs-trump-032507736.html
[22] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/02/trump-blog-page-shuts-down-for-good.html
[23] https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-organization-tax-charges-new-york-weisselberg-b1876714.html
[24] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: 88 Seems More Traditional
I think they were the inheritors of Eugene Terre'blanch's white nationalist movement which sank without much trace after Mandela's release and the subsequent elections.
Re: 88 Seems More Traditional
Yeah, that one seems to be a bit of a stretch. I'm sure it has significance, just a cursory wiki search shows several religious significances, and we all know what good Christians all these US right wing nut jobs claim to be.
Conservative products
"Here is a thing I think that has really stymied a lot of conservatives in our efforts previously: we haven't had a lot of good products,"
Do they mean policies or the ability to explain their policies that appeal to the general public? Whilst Trump may have had some policies which were actually beneficial to the USA (and even also to 'the free world'), such as maybe the policy towards Chinese domination of electronics manufacturing, and expansion into the previously international waters of the South China Sea, they always seem to have come across as aggressive, authoritarian and sometimes rather crass. At least that is how the 'liberal media' portrayed them, aided by being quoted verbatim in context on many occasions, and the Republican party's repeated failures to actually answer questions posed. But that is a problem of presentation and fact, neither of which will be altered by a new version of Twitter. (I'm not on Twitter ad won't be getting Gettr either.)
In short, the Republicans need to look at their message and how they deliver it, not what they deliver it on. Try to make it actually rational and based on reality, and us 'liberals' might just listen (I'm British, so no votes, but hey, I take an interest).
Re: Conservative products
"they always seem to have come across as aggressive, authoritarian and sometimes rather crass."
For a not-insignificant part of their base, that appears to be a feature, not a bug.
Re: Conservative products
" Try to make it actually rational and based on reality "
Uh, you do remember who the last president was, right?
Twitter without the porn?
I just read an article on Gizmodo that reported a rather large amount of hentai porn & "old men naked except for a diaper" pics being trolled through the platform, mostly attached to normal threads, posted by folks that have created accounts under the names of (im)famous Republicans, or hashtag bombing those images/video clips in order to prove the place as the cesspit it was to everyone not busy kissing Trump's boots/ass to notice the OHSG didn't actually have an account there yet.
The fact that he chose Rumble instead is just icing on their social media turd.
The article is at:
https://gizmodo.com/new-social-media-site-from-team-trump-upsets-qanon-fait-1847220199
Re: Twitter without the porn?
It is hilarious seeing/hearing QAnon grifters trying to ignore the irony of QAnon's genesis in the paedo/porn/hentai riddled Chans.
It is more than a Twitter clone
They ripped off Twitter content as well, which is visible within the app, including links and images. No doubt a cease and desist copyright suit from Twitter will be filed next week, and conservatives will cry and whine about how Big Tech is doing everything in their power to silence them.
Perhaps they did it knowing a lawsuit would result, hoping that being a "victim" would give them street cred among conservatives to help with uptake?
looking forward to it TBH :oP
if the right wing can spout their shite ad nauseum, without any fear of censorship, then surely a LEFT wing rabid dog can also spout their shite, again, without fear of censorship
or is this one of those one way streets the right seem to prefer ?
doubtful it will last longer then the time it takes for the first ISP bill to arrive TBH
as I find it unlikely that major advertising will make its way over there, and judging by the total lack of any form of baited breath in the background, it doesn't appear to have captured anyone's imagination either :o)
88 Seems More Traditional
I've never heard of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, so really can't blame them for missing that.