Elon Musk's Twitter Purchase Revives Jeremy Renner App: 'Time We All Join'

Twitter users are floating another platform to migrate to in light of Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover: Two-time Academy Award nominated actor Jeremy Renner's now-defunct official app.

The Avengers actor's name trended on Twitter as users pined after his Jeremy Renner Official app, a project that notoriously went down in flames years ago.

Renner's app is seeing calls for its resurrection amid Musk's contentious purchase of Twitter. The deal was hailed by conservatives in particular, but many users pledged to leave the app rather than experience it with Musk at its spearhead.

There have also been debates over the billionaire entrepreneur's style of leadership, ideological leanings, and possible handling of Twitter's content moderation standards.

Musk himself said in a tweet: "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."

Many were not convinced. One viral tweet said: "with Musk owning twitter, there's only one refuge for free speech on the net. it's time we all join the jeremy renner app."

Another user reacted to the actor's name trending on Twitter by stating: "i hope this is trending because we're (you're) all moving back to the Jeremy Renner app (i never left)"

Jeremy Renner Official was launched in 2017, with an Instagram-like interface allowing the actor to share updates and interact with fans. But the app soon notoriously devolved into turmoil, plagued with fake profiles, hate speech, harassment, and trolling.

Renner took down his namesake app in 2019. Users who purchased in-app currency were refunded (the app itself was free to download.)

In his app's farewell post, Renner chalked up the shutdown to "clever individuals that were able to manipulate ways to impersonate me and others."

"What was supposed to be a place for fans to connect with each other has turned into a place that is everything I detest and can't or won't condone," Renner's statement read. "My sincere apologies for this to have not turned out the way it was intended."

The app now only exists in screenshots documenting the height of its chaos, such as one user posingas Casey Anthony, and another as Jeremy Renner condoning her (fake) presence on his "all inclusive app."

One person commented under one of the real Renner's photos—captioned "Happy Rennsday!"—by announcing his wife left him.

But the Jeremy Renner app is needed now more than ever, according to the Twitter users who saw it all go down.

"i bet a lot of you are wishing you had signed up for the jeremy renner app when you had the chance," one user tweeted.

Another spoke of a "Twitter to Jeremy Renner app pipeline."

Renner himself has not commented on the planned exodus to his app. His last tweet, posted Monday, warned of users impersonating him on social media and asking fans for money.

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