Social media application Parler sees an increase in downloads following the U.S. presidential election as conservatives ditch Twitter, Facebook; Parler CEO joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
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Leaving twitter and Facebook
going off to Parler
PETE as more Americans ditch it
lets bring in John Matze
its a real thing. Just hearing
from people talk to people,
they are leaving twitter.
Consider this.
The president himself has been
censored fifty two times since election
day.
How do you do things differently
over there at parler?
Well, you know. Parler is,
of course, about free speech,
making sure people have a voice
again, which is extremely. You
know necessary right now, but
were so much more than just
free speech too, because people
also want freedom from the data
manipulators.
They want change in social media
in general, because everybody
thought social media worked one
way and everyone has been
working under the impression
that it works that way, but it
doesnt and people want a
social media like parler that
works the way they thought where
it truly is by the people, its
private. You choose the content,
you want to see and you get
the content that youve
chosen to see and so theres so
much more than just free speech.
But you know really people are
tired.
They are really tired of whats
going on over there
PETE. So true John and its
real engagement
I switched over to parliament
parler.
I was shocked by the amount of
people that actually saw were
they werent holding it back.
I knew it on twitter every time
I posted something. If it got
close to two hundred retweets, it stops
and thats, not a complaint,
thats just a reality. So when
theres an actual conversation,
people are drawn to it and when
I say drawn to it, John weve
got a full screen of this. Youve
got now roughly ten million
members on parler
youre up five point: five million in just
the last week,
John youve mentioned to me
before that a couple years ago,
when you started this, the tech
was not ready to go.
Is it ready now to absorb that
many people
well its definitely ready
for scale.
Weve done an impressive feet
this week in taking the platform
from half a million people per
day to now, almost five million
people per day about four point: five million
and that in just such a short
period of time, is an impressive
feet.
Of course theres some bumps
along the way, but of course,
weve came out very smooth on
the other side and were ready.
You know were really close to
being ready for the next
ten million
PETE, and I bet do you think
you can get the big whale here
be getting the president of the
United States to move over
to parler?
Have you entertained or had any
of those conversations
well im, not sure what hes
going to do.
He kind of does his own thing,
but we certainly would love to
have him on the platform, just
as we would love to have anybody
on the platform and given how
hes been treated at the other
places. You know it be probably
a nice fresh of breath, air for
him or a breath of fresh
air for him
laughter,
PETE John Matze. A lot of people
have been screaming for an
alternative youve built
it at parler. Congratulations and.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-14.