An Early Look at the Gettr Social Network

TL;DR

This paper provides the first quantitative analysis of Gettr, a social network launched by Trump's team, highlighting user discussions, activity trends, toxicity levels, and community engagement.

Contribution

It offers the initial data-driven insights into Gettr's user behavior, content focus, and toxicity, comparing it to other fringe social networks.

Findings

Users mainly discuss politics, especially Trump and Bolsonaro.

Platform activity has been decreasing since launch.

Toxicity levels are rising but remain lower than Gab and 4chan.

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.