Trump supporters have long argued that the dominant Silicon Valley platforms have been out to censor conservative voices, even as those very same people continue to post on those sites and rack up followers by the thousands. Parler is playing into the hands of conservatives, who have become more vocal in their criticism of Twitter since the site started flagging Trump's tweets for promoting violence or abusive behavior or making false claims that could confuse voters. "If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler." "We're a community town square, an open town square, with no censorship," Matze said in an interview on Thursday, from his home in Las Vegas. Two days later, Parler was the top-ranked iPhone app in the news category, ahead of Twitter and Reddit, and 24th overall, just behind Venmo and WhatsApp, according to App Annie. User growth surged to 1.5 million from 1 million over the course of about a week, said John Matze, Parler's 27-year-old founder and CEO. The Journal named Parler as a possible alternative. The catalyst for the latest growth surge was a story from The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, which said that the Trump administration was looking for alternatives to Facebook and Twitter over concern that more content is going to be blocked as the election campaign heats up. Eric Trump, the president's son, and his wife, Lara, joined on the same day last month. Like Twitter, the app lets users share comments, photos and news stories with their followers.
To be fair, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has also been on Parler since 2018. "What's taking the rest of you so long?!"
"It's about time y'all joined me on Paul tweeted on Wednesday.
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