Truth Social, former President Donald Trump’s new social media platform, shortly topped free downloads on the Apple App Store after its gentle launch in February. Since then, lots of of 1000’s of potential users have been stuck on a waitlist and Trump has been asking associates: “What the f*** is going on?”
A pair of sources conversant in the platform’s launch informed The Daily Beast that Trump – who primarily introduced one other White House run in latest speeches, together with on Saturday – has publicly shrugged off a shoddy rollout whereas privately cursing and questioning why the app isn’t extra in style.
Last week, Truth Social mentioned it “resolved the performance bottlenecks with new user registration and validation, and [is] working through the new user waitlist at an accelerated rate”.
A MassLive reporter who signed up for an account earlier than the gentle launch stays in a waitlist that exceeds 390,000 users, if Truth Social’s figures are correct. Several users have shared screenshots over social media suggesting the waitlist may very well be greater than 1 million folks.
Trump informed reporters and guests to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference final week that the launch remained ongoing, and that persons are “loving the product… we’re getting a voice”, The Daily Beast reported.
On Saturday evening, after The Daily Beast’s story and stories by Politico, The New York Post and others in regards to the lack of posts on the location – together with by Trump himself – Truth Social emailed a “waitlist update” to “truthsayers” but to have the ability to log on.
“We are steadily welcoming new users from our temporary waitlist onto Truth Social for iOS,” Trump Media & Technology Group mentioned. “This phased rollout allows us to identify and remedy errors in real time as we onboard new users.”
The firm mentioned it’s constructing a platform “to take on Big Tech, but in a fraction of the time”.
“Consequently, we need to ensure the platform remains stable and provides users with the best experience possible,” the group added.
Truth Social was first introduced in October.
“TRUTH Social is America’s ‘Big Tent’ social media platform that encourages an open, free and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology,” its web site claimed.
Former US Rep. Devin Nunes, a Trump ally who tried to sue Twitter and users for defamation after parody accounts insulted him, resigned from Congress in December to serve as the corporate’s CEO.
Nunes and different Republicans allege that Twitter “shadow bans” GOP users’ accounts whereas boosting Republican opponents; Twitter has lengthy denied the accusations.
Though the creators closely emphasise the significance of free speech and “cancelling cancel culture”, Truth Social’s phrases of service drive users to agree to not “disparage, tarnish or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site”.
For extra on the platform and Trump’s earlier social media efforts, learn right here.
Truth Social’s creators overtly bash the tech giants that banned Trump final yr. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube stripped Trump of his in style accounts and accused him of glorifying and inciting violence that threatened democracy when he repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and praised the mob attacking the US Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.
As of March 6, Truth Social is a hundred and fifth in Apple App Store’s prime free apps chart.
In a speech to about 250 Republican donors in New Orleans on Saturday, Trump claimed he’d already gained two White House bids.
“And now I feel obligated that we have to really look strongly at doing it again,” he mentioned. “We are looking at it very, very strongly. We have to do it. We have to do it.” – masslive.com/Tribune News Service
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