The CEO of Gab, a conservative social media site, says he is gaining 10,000 users an hour after Twitter banned President Trump.
“Traffic continues to grow, even more servers on the way today,” wrote Gab CEO Andrew Torba on the website on Saturday.
More than 10,000 new users of Gab every hour.
– Gab.com (@getongab) January 9, 2021
He also wrote: “More than 500,000 new users today. 18 million visits. You do not need an account to use the website. The Exodus from Silicon Valley has begun. Enter the Ark. The best is yet to come. “
More than 500,000 new users today.
18 million visits.
You do not need an account to use the website.
The Exodus from Silicon Valley has begun.
Enter the Ark: https://t.co/J3Rfto6fi3
The best is yet to come.
– Gab.com (@getongab) January 10, 2021
Gab, launched in 2016, calls itself a “social network that defends freedom of expression, individual freedom and the new free flow of information online”.
After his permanent suspension, Trump used the official @Potus account to accuse Twitter of “banning free speech” and announced that he is “negotiating with several other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities for construction our own platform in the near future. We will not be silenced! “
“As I’ve been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone even further by banning freedom of speech and, tonight, Twitter employees coordinated with Democrats and the radical left to remove my account from their platform, to silence me – and YOU, the 75 million great patriots who voted for me, ”tweeted the president of the @Potus account.
“Twitter may be a private company, but without the gift from the Section 230 government, they wouldn’t have existed for long. I predicted it would happen, ”he tweeted. “We will not be silenced! Twitter is not about FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. The goal is to promote a Radical Left platform, where some of the most wicked people in the world can speak freely. STAY CONNECTED!”
Torba said he is in contact with the Trump team.
“I will be frank with you: I am in the process of connecting with President Trump’s team as we speak,” wrote Torba in a message posted on his website. “The President’s Office account is already reserved for hundreds of thousands of followers. We need to expand our server capacity massively and very quickly. “
Meanwhile, Parler, a social network that presents itself as a “free speech” alternative to Twitter and Facebook, is being censored.
“In the past few months, Parler has become one of the fastest growing apps in the United States. Millions of President Trump supporters flocked to him, as Facebook and Twitter increasingly repressed posts that publicized misinformation and incited violence, including gagging Trump by removing his accounts last week. On Saturday morning, Apple listed Parler as the # 1 free app for its iPhones, ”reported the New York Times.
“First, Apple and Google removed the app from their app stores because they said it hadn’t sufficiently policed their users’ posts, allowing many who encouraged violence and crime. Then, late on Saturday, Amazon told Parler that it would withdraw the company from its web hosting service on Sunday night because of repeated violations of Amazon rules. The move from Amazon meant that the entire Parler platform would soon be offline, unless it was able to find a new hosting service on Sunday, ”reported the Times.
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