Parler sold, pulled offline as new owner retools web page
Starboard, a Virginia-primarily based digital media organization, announced Friday it had acquired the app that was as soon as hailed by conservatives as a Twitter option.
Parler, which promptly gained prominence amongst conservatives soon after launching in 2018, had been floundering after it was briefly pulled from mainstream app shops and Amazon’s net hosting service.
Starboard, a organization primarily based in Arlington, Va., announced Friday that the app as it is “currently constituted will be pulled down from operation to undergo a strategic assessment.”
“No affordable particular person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business enterprise any extra,” Starboard stated in the announcement.
Ryan Coyne, CEO of Starboard, stated the group at Parler “has constructed an exceptional audience and we appear forward to integrating that audience across all of our current platforms.”
The acquisition, and the subsequent chapter for Parler, comes soon after Ye, the rapper formerly identified as Kanye West, made a push to obtain the app in October. By November, even so, Parler stated the organization and Ye “mutually agreed” to terminate the intent of sale.
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