Hundreds of thousands find their voice in Parler – Downloads nearing 4M

"Downloads rose from an average of 65K daily downloads to 93K in the U.S. on Saturday, based on our estimates. Internationally, downloads grew from an average of 470K daily downloads pre-election to more than 700K on Saturday. Growth of 43% and 49%, respectively."

BBC claimed 2 million in one day which seems incorrect (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54873800)

It seems like the international market, which explains why we are not understanding why it's happening. What countries are pushing this enormous growth?

OT: Parler, FYI this kills user growth.

"Use eight or more characters with at least one capital letter, lowercase letter, number, and special character."

Compared to security breaches which will get you free PR and promote growth. Not that the above will help at all with security.

Man, I should post about this to Voat!

Pretty interesting.

I'd like to know what their revenue model is and if it aligns with their mission statement.

Honestly I'll go to any platform that doesn't blast me with warnings, walls, etc. before content.

It seemed like every app was telling me to vote.

Remind me to eat while you're at - lest I forget and starve.