Posted on 03/23/2022 7:11:47 AM PDT by fatboy
Some posters in FR seem to get upset with me when I point out the shortcomings of Truth Social. I get accused of being a troll or someone will say they have been accessing the platform in full body bliss for at least 24 hours now and that I need to get a life or learn to be patient or if that doesn't work they will call all kinds of names.
We correctly complain about the shortcomings of the established "social media" platforms but have little concern for those that should give voice to conservatives. Such is the mission of Truth Social, to bring twitter and facebook to it's knees.
It has been more than a month since Truth Social made it's soft launch. It is impossible to know exactly how many users have been granted access but it seems reasonable to say about 500,000 It also seems reasonable to to estimate the number waiting in the wings to gain access at another 1,000,000 To use myself as an example, I registered my account on Feb 21, was given a place in a waitlist at #312,624 and had my phone number verified on 2/28/22 I still wait in the line along with my wife who registered a few days after me and has a waitlist number approx 1,200,000
Of the official information coming out from the company that runs Truth Social, we were informed in February that around March 21, access would open up to Android users and by the end of March the "soft launch" status would be revised to a general useage.
Truth Social maintains a presence on the WWW. There is really no information there, no FAQs, no Blogs and no news releases. It is reasonable to speculate that the persons running Truth Social are not, as individual human beings, "social" as most would identify the word with. My guess is they are locked inside a cave in at a remote location on the North Slope in Alaska, far from access to the internet.
There are quite a number of facebook sites that are set up to discuss Truth Social in all it's fascinating details. A surprising number of them are Pro-Trump and not there to bash TS. Think about it, why is there a need to go to facebook to find out what is going on at Truth Social?
I think that if there is one question that those who are disappointed with the way TS has been handled is would be "What in the h*ll is wrong with Truth Social?"
And that is the question.
Saying you sound like a liberal is calling you names?
My beef is that we have so few options as conservatives and this is the one you choose to continue to post about. Free country and all but I would take a step back if I were you and see how high the demand is which can gum up anything, and see how it shakes out. As another poster pointed it, it sure would be nice to see the contrast of how many tried to sign up on twit or FB when they first rolled out. I would bet big bucks it wouldn’t even be close to TS’s demand. Further, it was TRUMP that made twit what it is and now that he’s off that and other platforms, their market caps have plummeted.
If your liberal co workers, etc., didn’t have this to complain about I can assure you, they’d search and search for something else. They, and all the left, are worried about this; as they should be.
You might find this interesting. This guy breaks thing down well as far as the structure and potential of the company goes. He also shows the market caps, then and now, of all of DWAC’s competitors. Very interesting stuff:
from the link (he posts a number of ‘fuds’ and facts countering them:
FUD: The roll out has been slow and unsuccessful
Counter: Actually no it has been record breaking and see the part of the DD above about growth rate projections. Anyone who doesn’t understand this is comparing to AWS or existing infrastructure rollouts. I have not yet had one person point me to a valid example of a new platform or service rolling out faster at its inception with its own infrastructure. Also this platform was said be rolled out by end of Q1. It is not end of Q1 yet. TS got 1.5B views in the first 24 hrs -washington examiner (just on apple products, there are only 1.8B apple products.)
You are looking at this through the lens of wishful thinking that the financial media will behave itself. It may or it may not, suspect it probably will not. If, for no other reason the legacy on-line media had no expectations like what we see today, comparing TS to facebook and it’s trails is not a good idea. Everyone was scratching their heads when Facebook went public and it floundered at first. TS is not going to have that grace, the media will not allow it and you know this.
Now, today there is a baseline and having Trump in the picture will do nothing but make investors nervous if the flagship product looks wobbly. And right now it looks really wobbly. I really cannot understand why you think all this is acceptable because it is not. My little nit picking is not going to change a thing, having the financial news outlets pounding away night after night reporting that things are amiss will put the whole thing in a state of turmoil. Q1....look at the calendar. I have been saying this for weeks, unless TS gets it act together now it’s going to look very foolish in about a week.
The problem with TS is not that the platform is not working, and it really isn’t working, the problem is the company behind it is being mismanaged and has no direction. Plain and simple.
you should have told me you’re a total TS expert, I had no idea. Here’s advice to you: don’t get on the platform and don’t invest in the company. Simple really. Then you won’t work yourself up about what a failure it is.
There is no day on any calendar ever printed when I will feel the need to take your advice on anything.
Have a nice day.
Who cares - it’s free.
If somebody out if the blue promises you ten million dollars - but then it takes them two months to deliver - are you going to complain about the wait?
Me either.
I have been at my wait list number for 3 weeks. It hadn’t budged.
They screwed the pooch on this launch. Plain and simple.
You see enemies behind every tree? This is incompetence.
I don’t really understand why they won’t allow a web based version—just to read. I don’t have to be logged in to read Twitter, Reddit, or FR.
Trump should had bought out either Gab or Parler instead.
Nothing on this planet, with the exception of Salvation through Christ Jesus, is free. Nothing.
He just should have just set up on Gab. The anti-Semitism charges will get leveled at him, anyway - at least he would be on a genuinely secure and independent platform and his arrival could lead to big improvements there.
You’re missing the point.
I was told it was so by paranoids...............
Still sitting in the queue... have been since lord knows when ...
I don’t know what’s going on, but Trump needs to read the riot act to these folks, and get this done.
At this point I question the thing even soft launching to anyone... Has ANYONE, and I do mean ANYONE actually using the system here, or is everyone like me, just waiting to get in with no status update or progress?
I think they are better off with their own system... I don’t have a problem with that decision at all...
I don’t have any issue that its “harder then they thought” either...
But no communication at all, of any sort, after all this time to people who signed up and can’t use it... that’s inexcusable...
Trump really needs to read the riot act to whoever he has in charge of this....
I know many still stuck on the waitlist are frustrated but once you are finally on the app, you will not be disappointed. Lot of like-minded patriots there and not much of the animosity you see on the other platforms - at least not yet.
If there is one thing TS did wrong, it was that they created the impression on Feb 20th that the app was finally launched. With regard to communication, they could have done a better job. But realize that every press release they make is mocked by 99% of mainstream media who only want to see the enterprise fail. So they have decided on this low-key "slow and steady" approach.
It is clearly still in beta and only available to iOS users at this time (Apple). Android and web-based options are planned but obviously the developers have their reasons for limiting the launch at this time to iOS.
TS will be much more useful to me when I can use it on the desktop (in a browser) and when I can share content from it. But for now, I'm liking what I see so far and look forward to more features being added.
good update Sam. I’m waiting for the android version; I offer grace to this platform as they are under huge pressure from all sides. I’m super excited that conservatives and patriots will have a place to go that is not rife with tyrants running the thing.
As someone who shuns social media like Twitter, my opinion probably isn’t worth much, but it seems to me that building platforms that cater primarily to one side of the political spectrum just creates an echo chamber with no real debate.
I know Truth, Parler, Gab, and others are open to anyone, but they are really simply one-sided platforms in spite of this. If people want to hear opinions that align with their own, there are already excellent choices for them like Free Republic and Democratic Underground.
I’m rooting for Musk to buy Twitter and unlock its potential. Outside of that, I’m doubtful any of these other platforms will make real headway in robust debate.
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