Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller leads GETTR, a Twitter-like service that bills itself as a “non-bias social network”, in the newest pro-MAGA tech venture
won't have any financial stake or participation, I'm told. Apparently the ex president still has plans for a separate platform. Unclear what exactly. Will Sommer / @willsommer : QAnon fans were initially excited about new MAGA social app Gettr, but they're growing irate as moderators fail to keep lewd anime pics and the “pig poop balls” meme out of the QAnon hashtag. One of the top results now features Sonic the Hedgehog crushing a guy with his feet. Dan Primack / @danprimack : “Gettr” doesn't sound like a great name for a social media app, when social media so often makes people (and particularly women) feel like someone is out to get them. Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : 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://unsplash.com/... https://twitter.com/... Will Sommer / @willsommer : Trump adviser Jason Miller's new social media app Gettr is funded by a fugitive Chinese billionaire. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... Kevin Collier / @kevincollier : It's become a rite of passage for these conservative apps to be pwned immediately after launch, but Gettr might get it worse than others. And I'm honestly surprised if nobody's scraped it yet; it's wide open. https://twitter.com/... Bad Fox Graphics / @badfoxgraphics : So, basically, Jason pitched his Gettr idea to Trump and teased it on rival Twitter to boost value, then Trump bailed because a Chinese billionaire is bankrolling it and Trump's piece of the action was no good, leaving @JasonMillerinDC high & dry. I got that right? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Liam🇻🇦🇺 🇸 / @jeffing … : I think it's funny GETTR launched the same day that Facebook started telling people they're extremists and should seek help Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Every social media platform has to deal with content moderation questions at some point. Some sooner than others. https://twitter.com/... Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NEW: Team Trump launched a new social media platform that's full of privacy and security bugs. Also, within one min of opening it, scrolling on an unrelated account, we were served blatantly violent, racist posts advocating for murdering Black people. https://www.vice.com/... Violet Blue / @violetblue : *slaps roof of new MAGA social app* “This baby can hold so much free pentesting” 🤣 https://twitter.com/... TrevorWattsEngland / @englandwatts : Facebook vs GETTR [image] Frida Ghitis / @fridaghitis : It's not going well with the new Trump platform https://twitter.com/... @pinboard : Imagine inventing a time machine and having to explain this shit to Isaac Newton https://twitter.com/... Tooning Out / @tooningout : BREAKING: Estranged uncles nationwide download second app https://twitter.com/... Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek : Content moderation comes for every platform in the end https://twitter.com/... Andrew Werthmann / @andwerth : GRABBR seems more accurate https://twitter.com/... Amber Ruffin / @ambermruffin : Named after what a group of them yells when they see you alone. https://twitter.com/... John Fugelsang / @johnfugelsang : As in, “GETTR to say she just fell, bc she's clumsy.” https://twitter.com/... Mistress Matisse / @mistressmatisse : When even your new social media company sounds like a sex crime 🙄 https://twitter.com/... Sarah Longwell / @sarahlongwell25 : A dirtbag like Trump, with a wide range of sexual assault allegations against him and notable grabber, hiring a dirtbag like Jason Miller, who allegedly drugged his mistress with an abortifacient, to run a social media platform called GETTR (get her?) is so revoltingly on-brand. https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : This looks like the logo for a European airline catering company https://twitter.com/... Alex Weprin / @alexweprin : New: Former Trump aide Jason Miller described his “Gettr” social media platform in an interview with Chinese businessman Guo Wengui Thursday morning, saying Big Tech is “telling you what to think, what to believe, what to buy.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : Gettr is an attention grab. Ask Parler, Gab, and all those people who “left Twitter” for those platforms how things are going now. Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin : GETTR DONE? https://twitter.com/... Meridith McGraw / @meridithmcgraw : Interesting...here's our story on GETTR app https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/... Sunny McSunnyface / @sunnyright : He'll be launching Grabbr instead https://twitter.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Gettr? It feels like it supposed to mimic the word Twitter, but it sounds more like Get Her or, worse, Gutter: Team Trump quietly launches new social media platform - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/... Ryan Mac🙃 / @rmac18 : Gettr got gottn https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : RIP Gettr (2021-2021) https://twitter.com/... Mike Elgan / @mikeelgan : I guess GRABBR was unavailable? https://twitter.com/... M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : Missing vowels is too 2006. We need a nice big “+” in this name to take it seriously in 2021. (Google+ was too early on this trend.) https://twitter.com/... Dave Weigel / @daveweigel : GETTR? I don't even know her! https://twitter.com/... Chuck Ross / @chuckrossdc : Looking forward to next 6 months of people on Twitter telling me to “get on GETTR” https://twitter.com/... Andrew Exum / @exumam : GETTR? That was your whole plan, Ray? GETTR? https://twitter.com/... Lauren Ashley Bishop / @sbellelauren : is this about hillary again https://twitter.com/... Jeff Yang / @originalspin : Am guessing this App Store description of Trump's new social network platform made more sense in its original Cyrillic https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Ashkan Soltani / @ashk4n : This should be good... “From the Toilet Seat of Donald Trump” https://www.politico.com/... See also Mediagazer
Context & Ripple Effects
GETTR enters a growing field of Twitter-like services with a political identity, while Telepath's earlier “kinder” positioning showed that moderation itself had become a core product distinction. Miller leads GETTR, but Trump is reported to have no financial stake and to be planning a separate platform.
The launch matters because GETTR's stated neutral positioning is immediately tested by visible QAnon-related material, racist posts, and reported privacy and security vulnerabilities. Later coverage of Meta's Threads launch underscores how contested the short-form social market became.
First-order effects
- GETTR must address moderation failures that have allowed lewd, offensive, and violent material into prominent QAnon-related spaces, directly undermining its “non-bias” pitch.
- Trump's lack of participation prevents GETTR from presenting itself as his official platform, while his separate platform plans leave its pro-MAGA audience and brand affiliation less exclusive.
Second-order effects
- Twitter-like entrants, including Telepath, gain a clearer opening to differentiate on safety and reliability rather than merely offering an alternative political community.
- GETTR's reported security and privacy bugs make trust a near-term acquisition constraint for users and promoters, alongside its content-moderation problem.
Third-order effects
- If politically branded social networks continue to fragment, durable moderation and security operations—not ideological positioning alone—will determine which services can retain users.
- The later persistence of politically engaged users on X suggests that alternatives face entrenched network effects even as new Twitter-like products enter the market.
The trend: Political social media is fragmenting into rival Twitter-like services, but moderation quality, technical trust, and existing audience networks are becoming the decisive competitive layers.