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500,000 Users Sign Up For Parler In Three Days After Twitter Suspends Pro-Trump Accounts
dailycaller ^ | 6-25-20 | Jordan Lancaster

Posted on 06/25/2020 11:09:50 PM PDT by NoLibZone

500,000 people created accounts on the social media platform Parler after Twitter banned two conservative accounts Tuesday.

Parler’s user base increased by 50% this week, bringing the total number of users to over 1.5 million, Mediaite reported Thursday. (RELATED: Jennifer Lawrence Finally Joins Twitter For This One Reason)

The surge comes after Twitter permanently banned the account of Carpe Donktum, and locked the account of The National Pulse Editor-In-Chief Raheem Kassam. Both accounts, which were locked Tuesday, have over 200,000 followers.

Conservatives, who were already frustrated with Twitter for what they say is arbitrary and unfair banning of right-wing accounts, flocked to Parler after the two accounts were suspended. Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz both joined the platform.


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KEYWORDS: notanonymous; parler; phonenumber; twitter; twitteralternative
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To: NoLibZone

Ditto


81 posted on 06/26/2020 8:21:30 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Tennessee Conservative

To be clear, I want it to succeed. We need an alternative.

I certainly believe in free speech. However, the trolls appear to have started and it will only get worse. They will dirty it up so the MSM can say Parler is a “racist site”. That is what they do if their control is threatened.

It won’t be true of course, but when has the MSM cared about truth in the era of Trump?


82 posted on 06/26/2020 9:07:09 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer

Oh you can bet Leftists will infiltrate with that intention in mind.

Really, it’s why these things can never work.


83 posted on 06/26/2020 9:09:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChilledOut
Are we willing to give up nothing in a death match against the Left? I didn’t like giving my number either, but I did it for the higher cause.

The death match is against sin. I'm constantly striving to maintain a healthy peaceful attitude...which is impossible to do if I spent all my time on twitter. I get all the positivity I need from freerepublic for the most part. Life's too short to constantly waste time fighting about things that in the long run are just not that important.

84 posted on 06/26/2020 9:12:30 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
yes signing up REQUIRES giv8ng your cell number so they can verify you with a text. No. Way.

I could see it perhaps helping to avoid bots, and Leftists posing as racists from getting in.

85 posted on 06/26/2020 9:15:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NoLibZone

All I get is a faint gray screen with a curly “P” in the middle.


86 posted on 06/26/2020 9:25:05 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: DouglasKC

No one asked you to spend ANY of your time on Twitter. The idea is to help build momentum for a competitor to Twitter by at least expanding its membership, if not content. The war of ideas does matter. Doing something about the silencing of our speech IS important. It’s a sin to let evil prevail. Doing nothing is all it takes.


87 posted on 06/26/2020 10:23:40 AM PDT by ChilledOut
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To: volunbeer

I understand! Most conservatives in Parler know not to respond to liberal trolls and will block them. I think they might go away if they have nobody to harass. :-) If they get banned they will just say that Parler doesn’t practice what they preach. It will be a battle for sure! What they usually do is force the platform that hosts the site to remove the site. That’s what they did to GAB. I think Parler has taken precautions against that.


88 posted on 06/26/2020 10:30:27 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: DouglasKC

If your read though their fax then you will find that at least in some cases they require a scan of your drivers license as well.


89 posted on 06/26/2020 11:00:18 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Gene Eric; Drew68
" after it was taken over by neo-Nazi accounts" - Drew68

or Marxist impostors." - GE

An excellent and successful strategy developed by Felix Dzerzhinsky that saved the communist revolution...

A strategy that communists, worldwide, have successfully used ever since with very few failures...

A strategy that has currently put the communists in a very strong position to end freedom & capitalism in the U.S. permanently...

The last nail can be driven into the coffin on November 3... The communists are frothing at their mouths in anticipation... The GOP is contemplating it's navel...

90 posted on 06/26/2020 12:02:36 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Tennessee Conservative

I see a lot of people griping over having to provide a phone number to Parler for authentication, but hopefully doing so will make it harder to be a non-stop disgusting troll.


91 posted on 06/26/2020 6:14:42 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer

I see that too but it’s the only way to secure your login and keep bots out. I did it and have had NO problem. If you don’t login for a while or forget your login information they text a code to you. If the account gets locked due to somebody trying to hack it you can verify it’s you by them sending the code to your phone. A lot of places on the web do that now. My health insurance company does it, Ebay does it, Amazon does it, PayPal does it, and the list goes on. That’s really not a good excuse in my book. Knowing these places can verify that I am me makes me feel safer, not less safe.


92 posted on 06/27/2020 4:03:37 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: DarthVader

What’s a CF?


93 posted on 06/27/2020 4:07:13 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Drew68

Gotcha. Thanks!


94 posted on 06/27/2020 4:09:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Tacrolimus1mg
If Trump joined, he’d bring so many people with him.

Don, Jr. joined. I wish he would convince his old man to make the switch.

95 posted on 06/27/2020 4:16:03 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Sorry, I meant Eric.


96 posted on 06/27/2020 4:42:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: DouglasKC

signing up REQUIRES giv8ng your cell number so they can verify you with a text. No. Way.
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You can give your home phone too, if you have one. They call with an automated message with a code.
I only keep my home phone as a spam screening machine anyway.


97 posted on 06/27/2020 5:11:53 AM PDT by kara37
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To: kara37

It’s been written;
“When it’s time to bury your guns, it’s time to dig them up”

In that light, there comes a time to stand up, and be counted. Looking at the brave out there on social media who are on the front lines, using their real names and taking heat is inspiring and to a good degree while our anonymity hides us, it also deters the very community we desire to build. We desire to be a unified force, yet hide behind fake user names.

How many here at FR actually know the real full names of other freepers? How many face ro face meetings have any of us had with other freepers? Back in the day, FR bagd many active chapters with get togethers for active protest and rallys, shooting events, dinners and such. Over time, these numbers are less and less.

So I know there will be a reply; “you first SW! Post your real name here”. This is a more than reasonable demand. I have 8 months to retire, then no longer will need my security clearance. At that time I’ll weigh the decision to ask JimRob if he can change my user name to my real name and reset my real sign on date back to November 2000.

Until then and four months before the election, I think that somehow, Somme way, we freepers must renew our face to face interactions, build tighter community and develop plans to get on the street again to actively be involved in this election cycle. Maybe it’s standing on a sidewalk with flags, maybe it’s as poll watchers, maybe it’s just meeting others, to develop community.

If this election gets ugly, it is this community that we build which will help us survive. How do we build community better here? How to we get of our sofa and interact in real life? Ideas are welcome.

I wonder how many freepers have become introverted because of social media, which, to many, has replaced real life social interaction.

My thoughts only

JJ


98 posted on 06/27/2020 5:37:29 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

It is an Army or Marines Corps expression for Cluster F.


99 posted on 06/27/2020 10:11:20 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: SheepWhisperer

Excellent points, SheepWhisperer. Many local FReepers know me, even if they don’t know my full name. I used to attend numerous local FReeps and a couple of my comments are famous.

(A bunch of radicals come waltzing down teh street hollering, “1,2,3,4. We don’t want your racist war.” I looked up the line of FReepers and said, “Here come the smart ones; they can count to 4.” A couple of them wantged to kill me on the spot.)

We need to activagte our chapters again.


100 posted on 07/01/2020 12:42:05 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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