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GETTR CEO Jason Miller just announced new and upcoming features on the social media app and discussed the future of alternative platforms, on Friday.
He spoke to Just The News and touted the app’s news edit feature. He highlighted its debut ahead of Twitter’s anticipated update.
GETTR announced the debut of its post-editing feature on Thursday.
“[W]e were actually able to beat Twitter to the punch on this,” he said. “And what we mean is that since we’ve only been around since July of 2021, but Twitter has been around for 15 years, we now have available to all GETTR users. It doesn’t matter what your verification status is. There’s no subscription dynamics that says some people get to use the Edit feature and some people don’t.”
Twitter launched in 2006, but only just recently began testing its edit feature. Twitter plans to release Twitter Blue to subscribers in New Zealand first.
“And it doesn’t matter geographically where you are, everybody is allowed to use the Edit feature now,” Miller continued.
“So that’s one of the places where not only have we beaten Twitter to this, we’ve made it much more inclusive and available to the entire global GETTR community, which is approaching six and a half million users.”
“But in addition to that, we have a couple other features that we think set us apart,” he went on.
“Number one, you can make up to five edits within an hour. Twitter only allows for a half hour, but we allow up to five edits in case you accidentally make a mistake in your follow up and want to amend it.”
Miller noted that every edited post includes an edit history users can use for context.
Miller said that GETTR is listening to its users.
“It wasn’t something that when we initially launched we heard a lot about, but then as we started moving into say, later summer and early fall last year we started hearing it a lot more,” he noted.
He also mentioned that video will play a large part in the future of the app and special media as a whole.
“The short video formats, the clips… up to a minute… that’s really what’s the dominant force with the younger users,” Miller detailed. “But also, as we talked about, for users of all backgrounds, live-streaming [is] where we truly make GETTR the content destination where if you’re looking for great content, you want that entertainment, maybe it’s political, maybe it’s in sports… Video is king right now.”
Miller mentioned that anytime someone gets kicked off of a mainstream social media platform, it’s good for business for them.
“Every time TikTok or Instagram kick someone off of their platform[s], that’s great for business,” Miller said.
Miller also talked about the importance of free speech.
“More free speech is better,” he replied.
