Posted on 11/17/2020 4:01:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Parler, a Twitter-style social media platform, has gained popularity mostly among President Donald Trump's supporters and right-wing conservatives after the 2020 presidential election, but experts told ABC News they believe it's unlikely the platform will grow any further.
"They have this echo chamber and they can't trigger anyone or target anyone because everyone believes what you believe," said Fadi Quran, campaign director at Avaaz, a global civic organization that studies misinformation. "It gets boring to be sharing the same type of hate, and so they end up having to come back to the top five social media platforms."
Last week, the app gained over 3.5 million users, according to Jeffrey Wernick, the company's chief operating officer. It is now at the top of Apple's App Store list of free apps.
The app advertises itself as a platform for free speech, where users can post "without fear of being 'deplatformed' for your views."
Benedict Evans, a tech analyst, told ABC News he believes the new platform will not gain enough popularity to compete with Facebook and Twitter.
"Parler is a weak clone of Twitter, but you can go there to talk about one particular issue that's now mostly blocked on Twitter," said tech analyst Benedict Evans, referring to the fact that Twitter has been fact-checking or deleting posts and profiles promoting misinformation about things such as voter fraud in the presidential election.
"But how many people care about that one issue? And do they care enough to spend all their time there, and not on Twitter or Facebook where all the other news and discussions are happening?" Evans said.
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Experts.............again!
What a trashy hit piece of misinformation by fake media, yet the “expert” works for a trashy leftist “misinformation” think tank. Riiiiight. Major contrived piece of totally fake news.
And Twitter won’t last because it’s an echocardiogram chamber for loony leftists who can make not attack.
"But how many people care about that one issue? And do they care enough to spend all their time there, and not on Twitter or Facebook where all the other news and discussions are happening?" Evans said.
Yeah, if you take away people's right to free speech, a few cranks may make a fuss, but eventually they'll accept the new normal.
Not clicking on it, but exactly how much lack of self-awareness does one have to have to mischaracterize the parler conversation as hate?
And to also say that twatter and fakebook are where all the conversations are happening? /eyeroll
Another Palestinian misfit. Fadi Quran
Al-Shabaka Policy Member Fadi Quran is a Senior Campaigner at Avaaz and a Popular Struggle community organizer. He previously served as UN Advocacy Officer with Al-Haq’s legal research and advocacy unit. Apart from his work in advocacy and international law, Fadi is also an entrepreneur in the alternative energy field, where he has founded two companies bringing wind and solar energy to Palestine and other countries in the region. Fadi holds degrees in Physics and International Relations from Stanford University.
Expert: An ex is a has been, and a spert is a drip under pressure.
Sure, anytime a group is united in principle and seeks out each other’s company, suddenly, it’s an “echo chamber”.
Like twitter, fk, and ou tube aren’t?
They who ban non politically correct thinking and speech?
They need to look in a mirror.
” experts say it won’t last”
The same “experts” that tell us that covid will kill you if you don’t wear a mask? Those experts??? Laughable.
Yesterday, CNN was calling Parler a “threat to democracy” and today it’s an echo chamber of hate. And these dipshits wonder why people are flocking to alternative media sources in droves. You reap what you sow.
Thanks for the advertisement.
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"They have this echo chamber and they can't trigger anyone or target anyone because everyone believes what you believe," said Fadi Quran, campaign director at Avaaz, a global civic organization that studies misinformation. "It gets boring to be sharing the same type of hate, and so they end up having to come back to the top five social media platforms."
So much irony...
The threat to the “established order” would be for information to be able to go viral on parler, and then have a few thousand people spread it from there to Twitter and Facebook.
Parler.com won’t make it because they do not solicit or allow advertising. They do not have to go crazy, but they have to allow some, like the pillow man.
... but experts say it won't last
I'm sure experts said the same about Twitter in the early days.
Experts as my dad said: 'Ex is a has been and Pert is a drip, so an Expert is a has been drip.'
Dad was a nuclear engineer.
[Parler.com won’t make it because they do not solicit or allow advertising.]
Just got on Parker.
Just me and Larry the Cableguy so far.
I’m a Parler expert and I like it!!
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