Saturday, April 15, 2023

'Bye Parler: Turns out that catering exclusively to nuts and bigots isn't profitable.

Pointed at this by Taegan Goddard's Political Wire.

From Variety -

Parler Shut Down by New Owner: ‘A Twitter Clone’ for Conservatives Is Not a ‘Viable Business’

Parler, the self-described “uncancelable free-speech social platform” that catered to right-wing users — which was nearly acquired by Kanye West last year — has been shut down by its new owner.

“No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more,” Arlington, Va.-based digital media company Starboard said in announcing Friday that it had acquired Parler. The terms of the deal are not being disclosed; Starboard said it expects the deal to be accretive by the end of the second quarter of 2023.

A platform that was favored by Paul Gosar is/was not economically viable.


Who'da thunk it ?

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