Facebook, Twitter launched a new round of speech censorship, the stock price plummeted, while the free social media “Gab” is popular, in addition to the influx of users, but also received thousands of job resumes from the Silicon Valley technology industry.
According to Fox News (Fox News) 11 reports, Monday, Twitter in the stock market pressure, the stock price fell by more than 10% at the opening, the market value of $ 41 billion evaporated more than 2.5 billion. On the same day, Facebook also lost nearly 2 percent of its shares.
Over the weekend, Gab’s official Twitter account said for the first time that the company was receiving a large number of job requests from employees in the tech industry. About half of Big Tech’s employees want to leave to work for Gab.
In a follow-up tweet, Gab elaborated further: “We’re receiving job applications from senior employees at big tech companies. Over the next two weeks, Silicon Valley is in a panic after hearing that many will also be throwing themselves into an internal war between employees and executives. The house of cards has fallen. The exodus has begun.”
Gab went on to reveal on Monday (Jan. 11) that the number of people seeking to leave big tech companies to work at Gab has skyrocketed into the thousands, saying, “I think half of Silicon Valley wants to go out and get a job, and I’m not kidding, there are thousands of people, and we will be hiring U.S. citizens and will get back to everyone as soon as we can.”
Gab is a conservative social media outlet, and in 2016, the left attacked the company, removing it from the Google Play Store. In June of that year, Apple removed Gab from the App Store for similar reasons, TechCrunch reported in August 2017, and in 2019, Amazon cut its business ties with Gab.com.
How did Gab respond? Completely disconnected from mainstream services and institutions, he built everything completely on his own, with the only weakness being the logistical limitations of his own infrastructure.
On Saturday morning, Gab revealed that it was adding up to 10,000 new registrations per hour and counting. Later that night the platform added that in addition to its 18 million visits, it had a whopping 500,000 new users that day alone.
Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba delivered on his promise as fast as he could, adding 10 more servers to the site. As more and more users fled Twitter, Gab added nearly 1 million users a day, with traffic increasing by millions every few hours.
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