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:
And Twitter follower numbers:
And, allegedly, images – or, according to this tweet, “hotlinking” to them, meaning not even hosting them on its servers.
It was not well-received by those who have initially seen it, after Politico first reported on the new site.