OPINION
‘Bootleg Twitter’: Trump Advisor Quietly Launches New Social Media Platform ‘Gettr’ – It Is Immediately Mocked

Team Trump on Thursday quietly launched a social media platform called “GETTR,” under the weeks-long leadership of Donald Trump’s longtime spokesperson and advisor Jason Miller.
Team Trump is calling the new platform, which is somewhat similar to a stripped-down version of Twitter, “the marketplace of ideas,” but newcomers are greeted with people to follow, including Sean Parnell, who was Sarah Palin’s Lt. Governor and succeeded her when she resigned, and Tim Murtaugh, a former MLB player and manager, who is decidedly pro-Trump, as this post of his on GETTR makes clear:
Here’s a post from the company’s support account:
It appears GETTR may have imported old tweets, as this Twitter user suggests:
Did "GETTR" just straight up copy people's old Twitter feeds? Why do they have posts from 2012?https://t.co/gldR4zRaYX pic.twitter.com/BLp0wBNbsN
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) July 1, 2021
And Twitter follower numbers:
So Gettr copying Twitter so closely, it's even copying follower counts? pic.twitter.com/btkgwwxkAF
— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) July 1, 2021
And, allegedly, images – or, according to this tweet, “hotlinking” to them, meaning not even hosting them on its servers.
Trumps Gettr website didn't just copy old Twitter posts it hotlinks to Twitter images! pic.twitter.com/848G6zTXuS
— zedster (@z3dster) July 1, 2021
It was not well-received by those who have initially seen it, after Politico first reported on the new site.
Wait. The guy who said “Grab ‘em by the pussy” is launching a product called GETTR?
You have to be kidding me… https://t.co/Fs8vFH7WOE
— Heath Mayo (@HeathMayo) July 1, 2021
on the bright side if it doesn’t succeed the headline GETTR: DONE is just waiting right there https://t.co/NuUR6pDpWP
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) July 1, 2021
When it fails, I call dibs on the "GETTR Done" headline https://t.co/zxyAO8E16k
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) July 1, 2021
"GETTR" certainly has a misogynistic ring to it. Unsurprisingly.
— Arthur Fischer (@arjafi) July 1, 2021
As in… “GETTR to sign a non-disclosure agreement.” https://t.co/jK766HPIGY
— John Henson (@John_Henson) July 1, 2021
As in "GETTR child support claims tossed out of court"? https://t.co/kFASckwJWl
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) July 1, 2021
Trump's Team is starting a new social network called "GETTR". Wonder how many Scaramucci's this one will last.
— Amy Lynn🧦 (@AmyAThatcher) July 1, 2021
The top "popular user" in this handout photo from Gettr, the Trump-team Twitter clone, comes from a Kazakhstan-based photographer (@aionyhaust) on a stock-image site https://t.co/lXzUUfkB4T pic.twitter.com/yjrdxEEMVL
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) July 1, 2021
Serial sex predator Donald Trump releases GETTR app. He’s not even trying to hide it anymore. pic.twitter.com/AHLqThAtu5
— M. Scarn (@Sc0ttst0tts) July 1, 2021
GETTR is essentially bootleg Twitter for Trump supporters. Btw GETTR isn’t any different from any other social media platform. pic.twitter.com/WJu6kPoyOy
— remmy robertson (@remmy_robertson) July 1, 2021
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