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The uncertain future of global social media forum Twitter under Elon Musk’s ownership has boosted a small rival app developed in Australia.

The Gold Coast-based developer of the app, called Hittler, say while it has struggled since its debut three years ago, the potential absence of Twitter has recently boosted user numbers and revenues.

Speaking from Hittler’s headquarters on the Gold Coast developer Ulysses Snenge told The Bug users had embraced it because it focussed solely on the most popular feature of Twitter — the ability to anonymously abuse other users online.

“I designed our top-secret Hittler algorithm when I noticed Twitter exchanges always started off politely, but soon sunk into exchanges of personal abuse,” Mr Snenge said.

“Without fail those tweeting likened others to prominent figures from Nazi Germany’s Third Reich.

“I soon realised there was a big market for an algorithm that sped up that process so users reach peak levels of personal abuse and vile, humiliating, belittling comments as quickly as possible.”

He said the Hittler app filtered users and their messages — called Hitts — so that thugs and bullies were very rapidly the only ones whose comments and conversation appeaed to others in any conversation.

“It means those thugs and bullies can shout down the more polite users and dominate conversations.” (below)

Mr Snenge said he had patented his unique new algorithm which he had labelled an “aggrorithm”.

Unlike the Twitter app, a key feature of Hittler is that users cannot block those abusing them.

“That means we have an app that allows any rude, ignorant half-wit with a half-baked opinion based on half-truths and urban myths can let their ignorance loose and endlessly abuse those who disagree with them or those who insist on expressing only opinions based on facts. (below)

“In other words, we out-Twitter Twitter itself. There’s nothing else like it, apart from the talk-back shows on 2GB in Sydney and Sky News ‘after dark’.

“Also unlike Twitter we don’t offer the ability to ‘like’ someone’s message, but we do allow people to ‘hate’ it and to ‘hate’ the user who originally posted it.” (below)

Mr Snenge said he and his fellow investors and app developers planned to take Hittler to a public NASDAQ listing and were expecting an initial share price that would easily make all of them overnight billionaires.

“Suck on that fuck-face,” he told The Bug.