Trump’s pro-social media app was launched the day half a million people signed up for Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jason Miller, a former adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, briefly hacked a social media network that was deployed on Sunday, and more than 500,000 people have signed up to use the site, Miller said.

GETTR, which has Twitter-style platforms, posts, and high-trend topics, advertises itself in Google and Apple (NASDAQ 🙂 app stores, “as a trend-free social network for people around the world.”

“The problem was detected and sealed within minutes, and all the people who came in were changing some usernames,” Miller said in a note to Reuters.

A salon writer posted screenshots of some GETTR profiles on Twitter, including those of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and those changed by Miller himself to read “JubaBaghdad was here, follow me on twitter :)”.

Asked about security on new social media, Miller said the situation has been “corrected”.

Miller teased the Trump group’s plans to create a new social media platform for months after Twitter and other sites blocked the former president after his supporters stormed the Capitol.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon said on Sunday that GETTR was a “Twitter killer” in a message on the new site.

Trump was permanently banned from Twitter and suspended by Facebook (NASDAQ 🙂 for at least 2023 and Alphabet (NASDAQ 🙂 on YouTube until the company determined that the risk of violence had decreased.

Miller told Fox News earlier this week that he expects Trump to join, but the former president was exploring several options. Trump said he did not fund the platform.