Posted on 03/17/2022 3:41:02 PM PDT by fatboy
Hard to believe but it is almost a full month since Truth Social, a new social media platform started by Trump Media, designed to offer an alternate twitter type on-line experience without all the liberal politics, was soft launched.
I know that there are some Freepers that simply will not tolerate any criticism of this platform which seems counter to Truth Social's mission statement with regard to free free speech. Having said that I do believe that it is fair game to discuss this service, the good and the bad, given that President Trump considers us his base of support.
I have spent almost as much time looking for third party information on the trials and tribulations of Truth Social as I did registering my account on the day the app was first offered in the Apple App Store. That was a month ago and still I wait for final approval to begin my Truth journey.
A google search turns up very little information and a smaller yet discussion from the actual company responsible. One could almost make a case that it is, as Napoleon might have said as has his army fell apart while retreating from Moscow, "It is like as a dream". For something that was supposed to be such a big deal, it has instead become a virtual spinster sister, no one wants to talk about it, or at least speak candidly about it in public. Think about it: President Trump has founded a media company and not even Donald Trump himself wants to talk about it. How could that be?
There are so many questions and scant few answers. While it could be argued that the platform is new and thus needs to be troubleshooted, that might have worked 15 years ago when this type of media was in it's infancy but does that really offer a satisfying answer today?. Go to any website run by a first time webmaster and expect to find an faq subpage but not at Truth Social. Visit the website of any large government infrastructure project and somewhere there will be a proposed construction milestone or timeline but none will be found at the Truth.
It could be that many of us overestimate the true public interest in such platform. Strip away the frustrations and lack of direction, the complete lack of news releases, never mind defensive words to the main stream medias criticisms and a lack of interest in the conservative media, and what is left? Silence I would argue. It's almost as if Truth Social really doesn't exist at all because no one is talking about it, not even Donald Trump. And I think that silence says a lot.
The law of averages will allow apathy to intrude on success every once in a while. I think that is the problem, there just isn't the interest at any level.
Connections to what?
Twitter doesn’t have free speech (duh, huh?). On Twitter, I watched a video about a man yelling about People’s Convoy. It didn’t appear at first. I had to click warning label first, which is exactly what Truth Social does. The libiot in video kept yelling f*ck. That keeps it family friendly.
Ditto.
I kept trying to sign up from day-1, and kept getting 405 errors. Is that because I was trying on PC?
Interesting and very likely true perspective.
Correct. The PC option is not available yet. Truth Social is only available on the iPhone right now. Android and PC versions will be out shortly.
As for the iPhone version, it's beginning to grow rapidly. Over 32,000 new users were added since this morning and the total number of active users is approaching 700,000.
The floodgates appear to be opening so those million plus people still on waiting lists should not have much longer to wait.
Not bad for a platform that is barely a month old and still in "beta" mode.
Same here. I hate IPhones and their closed source cult like ethos.
Plus, you have to pay for everything and iTunes is a rip off... Not to mention movies, TV Shows, Music, etc. Android keeps me entertained all the time with no additional costs.
I have no real idea either, other than to ssy that, knowing Trump, he has mist lijely thought this through and left himself some kind of escape hatch or smart bomb-type option that will allow him to keep rolling through Benghazi.
I can’t log in. So I tried to change my password. When I click on the link to change password, I get “404” page cannot be found.
I tried to resign up, and it sends me back to “Chang password link sent”.
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