Twitter customers are floating one other platform emigrate to in gentle of Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover: Two-time Academy Award nominated actor Jeremy Renner's now-defunct official app.

The Avengers actor's identify trended on Twitter as customers pined after his Jeremy Renner Official app, a venture that notoriously went down in flames years in the past.

Renner's app is seeing requires its resurrection amid Musk's contentious buy of Twitter. The deal was hailed by conservatives particularly, however many customers pledged to depart the app quite than expertise it with Musk at its spearhead.

Jeremy Renner attends Hawkeye screening
Jeremy Renner attends the Hawkeye New York Particular Fan Screening at AMC Lincoln Sq. on November 22, 2021 in New York Metropolis.Theo Wargo/Getty Photographs for Disney

There have additionally been debates over the billionaire entrepreneur's fashion of management, ideological leanings, and attainable dealing with of Twitter's content material moderation requirements.

Musk himself mentioned in a tweet: "I hope that even my worst critics stay on Twitter, as a result of that's what free speech means."

Many weren't satisfied. One viral tweet mentioned: "with Musk proudly owning twitter, there's just one refuge totally free speech on the web. it is time all of us be part of the jeremy renner app."

One other consumer reacted to the actor's identify trending on Twitter by stating: "i hope that is trending as a result of we're (you are) all shifting again to the Jeremy Renner app (i by no means left)"

Jeremy Renner Official was launched in 2017, with an Instagram-like interface permitting the actor to share updates and work together with followers. However the app quickly notoriously devolved into turmoil, plagued with faux profiles, hate speech, harassment, and trolling.

Renner took down his namesake app in 2019. Customers who bought in-app forex had been refunded (the app itself was free to obtain.)

In his app's farewell submit, Renner chalked up the shutdown to "intelligent people that had been in a position to manipulate methods to impersonate me and others."

"What was imagined to be a spot for followers to attach with one another has was a spot that's every little thing I detest and may't or will not condone," Renner's assertion learn. "My honest apologies for this to haven't turned out the way in which it was meant."

The app now solely exists in screenshots documenting the peak of its chaos, reminiscent of one consumer posingas Casey Anthony, and one other as Jeremy Renner condoning her (faux) presence on his "all inclusive app."

One particular person commented underneath one of many actual Renner's photographs—captioned "Comfortable Rennsday!"—by asserting his spouse left him.

However the Jeremy Renner app is required now greater than ever, in keeping with the Twitter customers who noticed all of it go down.

"i guess quite a lot of you might be wishing you had signed up for the jeremy renner app once you had the possibility," one consumer tweeted.

One other spoke of a "Twitter to Jeremy Renner app pipeline."

Renner himself has not commented on the deliberate exodus to his app. His final tweet, posted Monday, warned of customers impersonating him on social media and asking followers for cash.