Forner U.S. President Donald Trump’s new social media app, Truth Social, launched late on Sunday on Apple’s App Store and quickly became the top free app available on Apple’s App Store.
Kenneth Li, Julia Love, and Helen Coster for Reuters:
The app was available shortly before midnight ET and was the top free app available on the App Store early Monday. Truth Social was automatically downloaded to Apple Inc devices belonging to users who had pre-ordered the app.
Many users reported either having trouble registering for an account or were added to a waitlist with a message: “Due to massive demand, we have placed you on our waitlist.”
Led by former Republican U.S. Representative Devin Nunes, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the venture behind Truth Social, joins a growing portfolio of technology companies that are positioning themselves as champions of free speech and hope to draw users who feel their views are suppressed on more established platforms.
“This week we will begin to roll out on the Apple App Store. That’s going to be awesome, because we’re going to get so many more people that are going to be on the platform,” Nunes said in a Sunday appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “Our goal is, I think we’re going to hit it, I think by the by the end of March we’re going to be fully operational at least within the United States,” he added…
TMTG is planning to list in New York through a merger with blank-check firm Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) and stands to receive $293 million in cash that DWAC holds in a trust, assuming no DWAC shareholder redeems their shares, TMTG said in an Oct. 21 press release.
Additionally, in December TMTG raised $1 billion committed financing from private investors; that money also will not be available until the DWAC deal closes.
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It’s been overwhelmed since it launched. Can’t get the verification email.
Must be millions trying to get in
Sounds right. 75 million voters for Trump and the growing numbers of disenfranchised Democrats who WOKE to the fact Biden is the worst president in U.S. history, sorry to say…
Sorry but Donald Trump by a massive margin is the most insidious, gaslighting, lying, self-serving and corrupt President the U.S. has ever known, regardless of party. Wake up bunkie.
Not very brighy are yer, Fesarius?
Why sorry? Trumps cult are an insult to integrity, democracy, intelligence and morality. If it’s useless, divisive, devoid of reality, anti-constitutional, plain bonkers and evil…it’s wearing a maga hat, armed with an AR15 and dancing on the planet’s grave.
Tell it like it is.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mims/statuses/1495633651698221058
Lol
You Brits will appreciate the irony.
Day One and heading for court for copyright infringement.
The most corrupt political family in the world is fully documented on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
What, Biden tells the truth? Biden does not gaslight daily? Biden and his son dealings are not self serving corrupt?
You are talking about Biden, not Trump.
But let’s say BOTH did the same as you allege. Well, I’ll take the Trump roaring economy best in my lifetime, government records set too numerous to mention, energy independence and putting the fear of God in Putin and the rest of the world’s rouge leaders.
Clueless dummies like you that believe the liberal media working for Demonrats and continue to support the WORST president in history…
Biden’s only the second worst.
Second only to the Clintons.
Fauci lied and Good People died.
Don’t worry! That crap can wait
It’s brilliant, probably planned. Trump is a business man. It’s like when people waited in line to be first to buy a new iPhone on release day. It generated excitement and free publicity. Something free often gets devalued. This short delay increases perceived value of free service, because “high demand” made me wait.
If it was immediately accessible, the system would be overwhelmed initially. Chaotic. Glitches and slow performance. Poor user experience. First impressions are important. Some users may not come back.
Instead, make it accessible only to invited users initially, the so-called “influencers.” Many of them were beta testers and already have content on system. Give them a head start adding new content. Then, over several days, open up the system to everyone, ensuring system performance stays optimal. People seeing Truth Social for the first time will have a good experience with plenty of existing content to see.
I already have an account, but the system is obviously getting hit with tons of new signups right now, so it’ll be awhile before it’s working smoothly.
Hope you enjoy it when it’s working.
So sad to see you go.
Don’t let the door hit you on the butt on your way out of here.
Hey Skellum, why don’t you give yourself an uppercut? You richly deserve it, you are the type of guy that has earned several dozen of them. Congratulations!
Nah…First gets a knee trembler planning how to own the libs, he’s going nowhere.
Truth is competing with Gettr and Parler and others for what? 20m tops? It’s small fry and an echo chamber for freaks – not a group most folks want to engage with.
I’d like to say good riddance but really nowhere is safe from the Trump cult.
At First Ukraine, then America . . . Don’t let the door hit your a** on the way out.
BTW – When is your trial?
So happy now the rest of us don’t have to listen to all that “truth” from the “biggest loser.” So much losing!
You are absolutely correct! Isn’t it wonderful to live in the free (for now) USA where you can choose what you want/ don’t want to listen to? You are free to believe whatever you want… true or not? Write what you want when you want! Love that delicious freedom, baby!
Disclaimer:
May not apply to “unacceptable views.”
Not suitable for overly sensitive people.
You must be thrilled with Bidens pushing for a war, forcing farmers to burn their crops, not helping people of color,
This is a classic oxymoron
No Mac news here today, as usual.
Ah but a ‘truth’repeated – would that be a Truth ‘truth’ reTruthed. It all makes sense now 😳😳
The clueless and brainless Leftists never learn…
And you’re the master of being clueless and brain dead.
You should stop talking about yourself that way, makes you look bad. But hey, that’s fine with me…🤣
Truth-free Social.
No doubt popular with all the acolytes here at MDN…
Carol Sounds like you downloaded the app for your analysis to be Biden pushing for war OMG
Looked at all the cuckroaches climbing up the pipe to get a taste from the source of the sewage LMAOOO
Built on top of open source (SOCIALIST!!) software where they don’t have to develop shit and they still fuck it up.
The best cybers.
What a country! Skellum, you have the right to be a fucking idiot and to do incredibly stupid things. And we have the right to tell you are a fucking idiot. What a country!
Yes, the USA is fast becoming a “shithole country”, to use the words of the orange imbecile himself.
The dissonance between Truth Social banning a humorous parody account before it posts anything and allowing an avowed anti-vaxxer to post death threats against government officials and pharmaceutical scientists is… well, not surprising in the least, to be honest.
When lies become “truth” and Biff Tannen to dream of sitting again on its trone… Pathetic!
You mean like sleepy Joe won the election without fraud “truth”?
If by truth, you mean reality, then yes.
Apple’s AR/VR headset would be useless for Tony’s brain considering how he currently sees the world through those rose colored glasses he currently wears to deceive himself in his own petty augmented and virtual reality.
The reality is that dementia Joe won by fraud. That’s the ultimate truth.
Prove it.
Mathematically and judicially impossible.
Then explain why every court challenge has failed, even with GOP appointed judges?
The fact is, you were all duped by a con man who has a pattern of doing this. In the primaries he was warning that the process was rigged against him but went silent when he won. In his first election he warned the election was rigged against him but then, in his own words, won by a landslide (even though he lost the popular vote in record numbers) and then went silent. Then he spent years warning that the next election would be rigged against him despite the fact that the US has never had problems with voter fraud.
Then he loses the election by the same electoral vote margin he won by before though again, he loses the popular vote by record numbers.
You should all be worried about how the GOP is trying to limit democracy in your country. The fact that you either aren’t aware or perhaps don’t care is very alarming.
Study Reveals Maricopa Counted 200,000+ Ballots With Mismatched Signatures Without Review (“Curing”) – February 23, 2022
In Arizona there were AT LEAST 229,430 early ballots with CLEARLY mismatched signatures in an “election” supposedly “decided” by 10,457 votes.
Anyone who stands by the results of the 2020 presidential election because their guy “won” and/or “Orange Man Bad” is fool who hates election integrity and, therefore, America.
Blue bubbles,
Green bubbles.
Can they do Orange bubbles…?
Yes they Klan!
Racist much?
AC, the notorious AppleCynic Fwit, it back, and he remains the biggest moron. Dumber than Biden, more shrill thar Commielala Harris, AC says hi to his fist giving himself an uppercut
Orange is a choice, not a race>
I would ask if you democracy much, but we know Trumpones don’t democracy at all.
Genius troll “Carol”,
spray on tan is not a race. it is another giveaway that D.J.Tard cares more for image than substance. anybody with a brain can see that inept fatass for the liar he is. why can’t you tell objective truth from rabid partisan propaganda?
🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
Well… It’s all about choice. Remember that beliefs aren’t very good advisers when it comes to recognizing the true of the false.
Loud noises!
GW slave owner piece of nothing nice.
TRUMP, THE APP!
🤩
So wait… Twitter is for having tribal arguments in a massive circular firing squad.
Instagram is for bragging to your not-friends, friends, and family about how cool your life looks.
Facebook is for reading the cringeworthy posts from the parts of your family you don’t like to admit exist.
Snapchat, as my teenagers tell it, is the new “digits”.
TikTok is like Jackass had a baby with American Idol.
LinkedIn is the place you let your scary corporate alternate work personality run free.
Not sure where this fits in the spectrum of ‘things you fake in the digital realm while your real self avoids real life interaction’ that is social media. Must be a troll recruiting site.
What is going on with this commentary? Settle down everyone