Source: Parler has ~50,000 DAUs and its parent company Parlement had been trying to sell the social network for the past few weeks at a “wildly inflated” price
conservative opportunists have seen the partisan split emerging across Big Tech and decided they want a piece of the action. But instead of innovating — which is hard — they pump out crappy copies of existing platforms. https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Kanye looking at Parler's DAU numbers after agreeing to buy the company. https://twitter.com/... @onekade : only 50k people use Parler? lol. I guess there isn't really much of a market for nazi social media after all. seems like people enjoy a range of perspectives and reasonable content moderation, after all. https://www.theverge.com/... Edward Ongweso Jr / @bigblackjacobin : lmao you gotta hand it to candace owens, one thing she is gonna do is grift https://www.theverge.com/... Brandon Wall / @walldo : “One prospective buyer described Parlement's asking price for the platform as wildly inflated, and said they were stunned by the site's low number of daily active users.” https://www.theverge.com/... YouTube Guy / @sneakerphetish : I'm sure he way overpaid. Oh well. It's his problem now. Candace & her husband laughing all the way to the BANK. https://twitter.com/... David Carroll / @profcarroll : Buy Parler from whom? Why are readers not informed of the identity of the founding/majority shareholders? Who owns and controls these companies. We know who it is. So why does The Verge not convey this critical context? https://www.theverge.com/... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : Those are Meta Horizon Worlds numbers. https://twitter.com/... @cebsilver : 50k DAUs. Do you know how infinitesimal that is in the grand scheme of things? Let's assume all of them are human (likely not). How come that tiny percentage of population ends up garnering the most attention? Loud shouldn't equal valid. https://twitter.com/... Eric L. Robinson / @uticaeric : If he wasn't a raging anti-Semite, he'd deserve sympathy for having been manipulated so badly by people who used a mentally ill man as a mark. https://twitter.com/... Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz : The grifters who cozied up to Kanye are going to be bleeding him dry for quite some time. https://twitter.com/... Prof Paul Bernal / @paulbernaluk : Many people may be surprised that Parler still exists. https://twitter.com/... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : “Parler's email list, one of its most immediately monetizable assets, has been used for months to share a regular cadence of chumbox-like sponsored messages like ‘Plastic Surgeon Reveals 1 Method To Snap Back Aging Skin’ and ‘Shocking Report Exposes What A Single Diet Soda Does’ https://twitter.com/... Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy : wonder how these two stats would line up head-to-head and who I'd be dunking on more by tweeting about them https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
🧵 THREAD 🧵 The reason for this is simple — conservative opportunists have seen the partisan split emerging across Big Tech and decided they want a piece of the action. But instead of innovating — which is hard — they pump out crappy copies of existing platforms. https://twitter.c…
only 50k people use Parler? lol. I guess there isn't really much of a market for nazi social media after all. seems like people enjoy a range of perspectives and reasonable content moderation, after all. https://www.theverge.com/...
“One prospective buyer described Parlement's asking price for the platform as wildly inflated, and said they were stunned by the site's low number of daily active users.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Buy Parler from whom? Why are readers not informed of the identity of the founding/majority shareholders? Who owns and controls these companies. We know who it is. So why does The Verge not convey this critical context? https://www.theverge.com/...
50k DAUs. Do you know how infinitesimal that is in the grand scheme of things? Let's assume all of them are human (likely not). How come that tiny percentage of population ends up garnering the most attention? Loud shouldn't equal valid. https://twitter.com/...
If he wasn't a raging anti-Semite, he'd deserve sympathy for having been manipulated so badly by people who used a mentally ill man as a mark. https://twitter.com/...
“Parler's email list, one of its most immediately monetizable assets, has been used for months to share a regular cadence of chumbox-like sponsored messages like ‘Plastic Surgeon Reveals 1 Method To Snap Back Aging Skin’ and ‘Shocking Report Exposes What A Single Diet Soda Does’ …
wonder how these two stats would line up head-to-head and who I'd be dunking on more by tweeting about them https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...