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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“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.”
Duh!
Free Republic.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.
It gets boring to be sharing the same type of hate...
As usual, the left never gets it — and deflects their own crap onto others...
Everyone in that article, except Wernick, didn’t exist.
This article is completely made up, I bet. Can anyone find the other names? LinkedIn?
Those names reek of “made up”.
"Just got on Parker."
“It gets boring to be sharing the same type of hate.....”
No bias there.
FR has a better system than Parler. Not tried MeWe yet.
There are may “do you want to see Morten’s of me” posts. They need a way to filter these.
The chick on that All-State commercial.
I am now stalking you.
Under verification.
A drivers license
Passport
Or other photo ID
Just think if Parler is hacked/sold...
Methinks the liberal press doth protest too much. I would prefer dying of boredom to being on Twitter.
I’m on Parler but I do not know how to see what others say. On Twitter you can see responses to original ‘tweets’ but it seems on Parler all you see is the original news item or statement. That makes it feel kind of isolated to me.
Is there a way to see other’s responses?
I tried Parler too with similar results.
I actually found out shortly after this how to do it. You click on the left side (or however it is set up on your page). The symbol that looks like a comic book ‘talking’ balloon, only it is empty and it takes you to the comments on that post.
If you hover over that balloon that points downward it has the word, ‘comments’ come up. You just click that balloon.
Btw, I’m on there under @BarbaraBarber
It seemed that way to me too at first but I started seeing the little message thing at the bottom left of the original post. I didn’t notice it at first, I even googled how to see the comments but it seems maybe I couldn’t see it at first? Might try checking again.
you have to go to the link that is posted first
I think that’s it....it’s the symbol that looks like a Reply button....so, I wasn’t clicking on it, if I wasn’t replying....just trying to read replies.
So, I clicked on that...and, Viola, there were the replies.
Kind of a strange set up.
I like Gab’s interface a lot better.
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