Ask HN: Gettr – The Twitter Killer? | Hacker News Reader

Ask HN: Gettr – The Twitter Killer?

9 pointslettergram19 comments

Hello!

I recently saw Joe Rogan, Bret Weinstein, Dr Robert Malone and others switch to https://gettr.com/

What are everyone's thoughts here?

IMO seems like network effects are building on that particular platform.

View on HN

Joe Rogan and two people I had to Google joined Gettr, a start-up founded by someone with no tech background.

This 'Ask HN' feels more 'Use Ask HN for buzz marketing' than an honest question.

Let me ask a question in response: other than being used by Joe Rogan and two people only really known on the alt-right, what makes you think Gettr is remotely close to a Twitter killer?

Twitters tech isn’t interesting or particularly innovative today. The most popular rails app tutorial goes through the creation of a basic Twitter-like app, for instance.

It’s the network effects that’s interesting.

I asked because I was curious if anyone here knew of the tech or had any thoughts on that aspect.

“Gettr the Twitter killer” is actually their catch phrase for advertising. Hence the title.

The platform is apparently buggy (https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xqva/gettr-is-the-trump-te...) and the source code has leaked. So if you wanted to see the tech, you could review the source.

With regard to network effects, Joe Rogan announced his move to Gettr... on Twitter. That pretty much sums up Gettr's relevance.

Despite the huge capital flows, attention is the real currency of the internet. As corporations are forced to censorship to protect their bottom line, they cut themselves off from the attention that their customers (the advertisers) are buying.

If you've got something to say, it isn't hard to copypaste yourself and get that in front of both audiences. The way we used to have RSS might get inverted to a list of places to post things instead of reading them.

I'm signing up, unless they ask for $.

The internet gives near-infinite space for social media platforms and everything else. It’s not like Highlander “There can be only one.”

It is another social network which is no different to Twitter.

Seems to be doing well. Nothing wrong with having alternatives and competition.

How can it "kill" Twitter if it requires you to tweet codes to claim "reserved" usernames?

Isn't this the latest "Twitter but freeze peach" with Gab and Telegram and Trump's social network and etc.?

Yeah, there’s nothing special about this. “Cancel culture bad” isn’t a viable value proposition. At the end of the day it’s yet another ugly Twitter clone.

For a social network the most viable value proposition is "people you want to interact with are here" and secondarily "we won't delete their posts or ban them".

If Gettr gets that much right for some audience, they're already past the first Great Filter.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com