TruthSocial, the social network promoted by the controversial former president of the United States donald trump, is now available for download at the . The former president himself decided to launch this app after being banned from the big ones (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) for his incendiary speeches during the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
It should be remembered that the most popular social networks expelled Trump, considering that his posts incited violence and echoed hoaxes about alleged electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential elections, which gave the current US president, Joe Biden, as the winner. .
For now, and while waiting to see if Trump will ultimately seek to return to the White House by 2024, the tycoon has decided to launch this app hand in hand with the company Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the head behind Truth Social. This company is run by DevinNunes, Former Republican congressman who resigned from his position in the House of Representatives last December to be part of a project that has been set up with 1,000 million dollars in private investments and that seeks to give Trump back a space in the world of social networks.
TMTG is also close to finalizing a merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp, a company dedicated to the sale of shares to the public, and that is already operating on Nasdaq, the US stock market index of large technology companies.
Thousands of downloads at its premiere, but with technical problems
At the moment, Truth Social has its app available in the Apple App Store in the United States. Nevertheless, many users have reported failures when entering the platformbecause of what the app rated as a “high demand” in downloads.
“Due to high demand, we have put you on the waiting list. We love you, and you are not a number to us, but your number on the waiting list is 219,351.”, reads one of the messages that Truth Social users received when registering on the platform. On Monday morning, the application was already the most downloaded in the App Store.
“Our goal is, and I think we are going to achieve it, that by the end of March it will be fully operational at least within the United States”Nunes affirmed this Sunday in an interview with Fox News.
Truth Social thus joins a series of platforms such as Gettr, , Gab or the video platform Rumble, that have emerged as alternatives to conventional social networks, selling themselves as guarantors and defenders of freedom of expression, thus seeking to attract those users who feel discriminated against for their opinions on these more consolidated platforms.
At the time of writing this article, the app is still positioned as the most downloaded on the App Store in the United States, surpassing Wordle, the sensation of the moment, and , the leading app in downloads in the last year.
It has a rating of 4.1 and quite diverse reviews: while some users celebrate that “they finally have an app where their freedom of expression is guaranteed”, there are others who assure that it causes problems when downloading the app or registering in it.
Truth Social is also a hit on Android… but it’s not the official version
It is important to note that the Truth Social app is only available on iOSthat is, it is not yet available for Android… but someone anticipated it, causing a really curious situation.
In the Google Play Store there is an app with a name similar to Donald Trump’s platform, «, that has received more than 100,000 downloads in recent days, causing confusion among users of Google’s mobile operating system. In the search for “Truth Social” on Google Play, this app is the one that is listed as the main option.
This app was launched in August 2021, was developed in Germany and has the peculiarity that charges 28.99 dollars (25.57 euros) for those purchases that users make within the applicationBesides that all these users are automatically subscribed to a global chat group. In addition, they will be able to receive content selected by the same platform based on the interests of each user.
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