Trump’s 'Truth Social' Twitter 'ripoff' launches — and it’s not going well
Truth Social, Donald Trump‘s new social media platform and mobile app launched just before midnight. It is not going well.
TRUTH Social has officially LAUNCHED. #TRUTHSocialpic.twitter.com/3fZ2efj1lZ— TRUTH Social (@TRUTH Social) 1645417899
Truth Social, Donald Trump‘s new social media platform and mobile app launched just before midnight. It is not going well.
“Team Trump has been cooking up its own social network ever since the then-president was thrown off all major platforms for his posts inciting the Capitol riot—but, even though what they came up with is just a ripoff of Twitter, it seems a year wasn’t enough time to make a useable product,” The Daily Beast reports.
Amid reports of social media users not being able to create accounts, early users being waitlisted, there are even accusations the logo itself is a knockoff.
Numerous people took to Twitter to complain they could not create an account, or despite being among the first to try to create an account were immediately waitlisted.
The Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger documented his experience, mocking the Truth Social app:
Incrediblepic.twitter.com/ZiCFUmTkcK— Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers (@Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers) 1645422632
lol whatpic.twitter.com/7WwuNZ2f1A— Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers (@Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers) 1645425082
This is a free speech violation now rightpic.twitter.com/LM3zHkOy6o— Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers (@Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers) 1645433419
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA \n\nOne of these is the icon for Trump's "truth social" site the other is the icon for a British "Fleet Telematics & Fuel Efficiency" company that has used it since at least 2019\nhttps://www.facebook.com/solartrailar/photos/a.297301290862501/657538928172067/\u00a0\u2026\n\nhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/truth-social/id1586018825\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/aQssmef17x— z3dster (@z3dster) 1645421824
“It took me five attempts to sign up and I received a string of error messages,” Business Insider’s Rosie Bradbury reported. “The app welcomed me as a ‘Truthsayer’ but I couldn’t contact any users or see any posts.”
