Devin, You magnificent bastard.
Posted on 04/08/2022 1:41:49 PM PDT by conservative98
From combating Democrats and the liberal media as an anti-Russia hoax House chair, former California Rep. Devin Nunes is now atop former President Donald Trump’s startup social media challenge to leftist Silicon Valley.
“What these companies have been getting away with is something we have never seen in the history of the globe because a lot of these tech tyrants are bigger than what global empires were in history,” Mr. Nunes told me in an interview.
The first item Mr. Nunes wanted to talk about is the same message he had in Washington: Don’t believe “fake news.” In this instance, don’t believe the spurt of negative news articles about the Feb. 21 debut of Truth Social, Mr. Trump’s flagship antidote to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram et al.
The Presidents Day event was not a “full launch,” he says, but a limited opening to early registrars. The rollout provided a chance to work out the bugs for a planned expansion to additional access points, not just the current iPhones and Apple Store. But even with those limits, Mr. Nunes boasts that users are seeing record engagements/interactions — that is “ReTruths.” (A “Truth” is a post; a “ReTruth” is sharing another’s post.)
“Bottom line is it’s the fastest-growing social media company in history,” he told me. “There hasn’t been one that has grown faster.”
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Too bad it doesn’t work and they have enormous capacity problems. It looks like they hired the wrong people to get this running.
Yes, clearly the decision makers are out of their depth... I am not blaming Nunes, the decisions were made before he even joined... but its clear someone sold folks a lot of snake oil and didn’t have a clue what they were doing.
Demand is higher than supply. This is a good thing.
Not quite the same as a milk cow operation
Not when it’s as bad as it is. If you can’t vaguely keep up with supply (on the Internet, where digital goods are literally limitless), what will happen is people will give up, leave, and not come back.
By what measurement? By the number of people still on a waiting list to get in?
Its certainly not the fastest-growing social media company in history based on the number of active users, or the number of interactions.
On second thought, maybe they are the fastest-growing social media company in history. If they have one user, and add a second user, they've doubled their user base! 100% Growth!
you have no idea what you’re talking about.
So when is it coming online? I have been on the waitlist (#213,457) for a while and heard nothing.
TRUTH always prevails.
If they don't get their act together it might be the fastest to crash and burn. Just sayin.
“Fastest Growing?”
Yeah. The fastest growing WAIT LIST. With millions still waiting. And waiting. And waiting.
Hoo boy.
Actually I do. I have run several forums and been an admin for earlier social media systems.
Trust me - if you have a launch with tons of fanfare then can’t get reasonable numbers of people in to a working system, the people you can’t get in will leave and they are unlikely to be back.
They would have been far better to set low-key expectations of “We are soft-launching this and it should be considered a public beta test so we can iron out problems.” Instead it was presented as fully functional when it clearly isn’t. The internet is not terribly forgiving of that.
link me to where they said it would be fully functional. They’ve been in a beta since feb, they’re building it FROM SCRATCH. they only opened to apple users in the US. they cannot depend on any big tech for apps or servers. What else? the arrogance about how perfect TS needs to be or it’s a failure is extremely disturbing. Especially from conservatives.
there is no comparison of TS to any other platform due to the demand. Who else had this kind of demand? who?
Fastest overall.
Fakebook when it first started 1000 users.
Twitter 140.
[Trust me - if you have a launch with tons of fanfare then can’t get reasonable numbers of people in to a working system, the people you can’t get in will leave and they are unlikely to be back.]
Normally l would agree with you but the people who want this will keep coming back to it until it works.
“Not quite the same as a milk cow operation”
Trump’s biggest flaw as president was hiring the wrong people. I hope he will do better at that in his second term, but putting a dairy farmer in charge of a tech site makes me worry.
Are there any actual users? I signed up within the first couple of days and got a wait number around 971,000. It hasn’t changed and I haven’t met anyone who is using it yet. Elon Musk may have Twitter running right before these managers get it up and running.
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