Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, launched a new social media platform on July 4 at 10 a.m. ET called GETTR. The name comes from the idea of “getting together” as one online community. It was launched on July 4 to declare “independence” from Big Tech. Miller says launching on July 4 was "very much intentional." He says that it "ties in with Independence Day….Independent from social media monopolies, independent from cancel culture; embracing free speech."

The app is currently available for download for Beta testing. It is currently in the top 10 among free apps in the Apple App Store and third among social media apps.

"GETTR is a direct challenge to the social media oligarchs from Silicon Valley, and what better day to declare independence from their woke tyranny than July 4th?" Miller, GETTR’s chief executive officer, said in a statement. "GETTR is the marketplace of ideas. We will not cancel people for their political opinions, and GETTR offers far more features and better technology than anything else out there."

Miller says that this platform is not just for conservatives, that it is "for people of all political stripes from around the world. We’re not afraid of ideas that challenge our own. That’s what the online experience should always be about."

With GETTR, users can have posts up to 777 characters, post clearer pictures, post videos that can be up to three minutes long, and you can import tweets from Twitter.

“Users won’t have to choose between conservative-leaning platforms with inferior technology and slicker liberal Apps that crush their freedom of expression,” Miller said. “With GETTR, they’ll get back their freedom of speech and have a superior product at the same time.”

Miller is not sure if Donald Trump will join GETTR. "We certainly hope President Trump will join the platform, but I’ll leave it to him to make decisions on what he’s doing," Miller said.

Miller says that Donald Trump is not funding GETTR. "I hope he joins, but President Trump has a number of different options he’s considering," Miller said.

GETTR was briefly hacked on Sunday and some usernames were changed to “JubaBaghdad was here, follow me in twitter :)”. “You know you're shaking things up when they come after you. The problem was detected and sealed in a matter of minutes, and all the intruder was able to accomplish was to change a few user names,” Miller said in a statement.

On Saturday, there was a flood of pornographic images on the site after the platform posted its welcome message. Users spammed the welcome message with things like hentai and pictures of Hilary Clinton photoshopped onto a naked woman’s body. Other social media platforms usually remove this type of content. However, GETTR has not done so yet, since free speech is one of its “core values.” However, the platform says that it reserves the right to "address content that comes to our attention that we believe is...pornographic" alongside material that could be "offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy...violent, harassing, threatening, abusive, illegal, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate."

Trump was permanently banned from Twitter and is currently suspended from Facebook until at least 2023. He is also banned from YouTube until they determine that his content is no longer a risk to public safety.

In a statement on Sunday, Miller said that the launch of GETTR was a “tremendous success,” and that the platform had “added nearly one million new users in dozens of countries.”

While the launch did have some hiccups, it was a success overall. If President Trump decides to join the platform, it would probably increase the number of users on the platform.