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arXiv:2108.05876 (cs)
[Submitted on 12 Aug 2021]

Title:An Early Look at the Gettr Social Network

Authors:Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini
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Abstract:This paper presents the first data-driven analysis of Gettr, a new social network platform launched by former US President Donald Trump's team. Among other things, we find that users on the platform heavily discuss politics, with a focus on the Trump campaign in the US and Bolsonaro's in Brazil. Activity on the platform has steadily been decreasing since its launch, although a core of verified users and early adopters kept posting and become central to it. Finally, although toxicity has been increasing over time, the average level of toxicity is still lower than the one recently observed on other fringe social networks like Gab and 4chan. Overall, we provide a first quantitative look at this new community, observing a lack of organic engagement and activity.
Subjects: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
Cite as: arXiv:2108.05876 [cs.CY]
  (or arXiv:2108.05876v1 [cs.CY] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2108.05876

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From: Emiliano De Cristofaro [view email]
[v1] Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:49:30 UTC (160 KB)
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