'Something Went Wrong': Trump's Twitter Ripoff Suffers Botched Launch

[Scrivener7]

Bahahaha! Who had "first half hour" in the "When Will This Thing Break Down" pool?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-twitter-ripoff-truth-social-suffers-botched-launch?via=Twitter
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. CNET reports that Truth Social went live on Apple’s App Store on Sunday night, but would-be users immediately ran into glitches. Some people who tried to create accounts were repeatedly met with a red error warning that said: “Something went wrong. Please try again.” Others were told that the app was simply too popular for them to join it, with a warning that read: “Due to massive demand, we have placed you on our waitlist.” On Sunday, Devin Nunes, the former Republican congressman and CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, said that he hopes the new app will be fully operational by the end of March.

[Walleye]

1. It's OK to be incompetent in the government?Running a social media site takes a modicum of skill

Devin Nunes

[Scrivener7]

3. The cow was bothering him. He couldn't concentrate.

[Walleye]

4. That constant mooing. I guess he got a socialist cow

[Scrivener7]

5. "But Donald, the cow called me shut up! It hurt my feelings!"

[Botany]

26. Devin Nunes, the CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group ....

"Devin Nunes, the CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, said he hopes the new app will be fully operational
by the end of March."

[Walleye]

27. I wouldn't trust Nunes to manage a McDonald's franchise

[Botany]

28. Although if the MAGA morons want to give their credit card info to a TFG biz managed by Devin ...

... Nunes let 'em. And they can die from C-19 too.

[Walleye]

29. I'm with you I've had it with these people. I hope they suffer

[Botany]

36. And the same idiots who refuse the vaccine demand high quality health care when they get the ...

... disease and that really pisses me off. If it weren't for them, Fox News, and TFG we could have
really put this disease "behind us" but no they, their families, and friends have chosen to be hosts
for the virus where it can live and mutate because they want to stick it to "the libs." Can't we just
put a fence around Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, and the southern half of Kansas and send them
all there?

BTW why do the still follow TFG? One word, racism.

[Walleye]

37. Racism is the correct answer

[Botany]

38. According to one of my late father's friends we have a block of 25% of Americans who will almost ..

... always follow Trump no matter what because of Racism, sexism, and anti intellectualism they are
proud to be stupid and we have powerful media forces feeding them lies 24/7 that give 'em a feed back
loop to re-enforce their bigotry.

[keithbvadu2]

52. No vax but save my ass!

[Wednesdays]

30. I wouldn't trust Nunes

to operate the automatic deep fryer.

[rsdsharp]

78. I was gonna say I wouldn't trust Nunez to manage

a McDonalds shift.

But yours is better!

[COL Mustard]

84. What's wrong with McDonald's???

😀

[SergeStorms]

86. Nothing....

until Devin Nunes took it over. Then the french-fries came on a sesame seed bun - seasoned with Comet Cleanser, the shake machine spit out fish sandwich milk shakes, and Happy Meals toys were used heroin syringes.

Other than that, business as usual.

[Mr.Bill]

80. I wouldn't trust him to make the fries. n/t

[Samrob]

71. When you enrage a bunch of social network psychopaths because of promises broken...LOOK OUT!

Nunes and Trump are in deep doo-doo. Trump already had broken his promise to be at the Capitol with the insurrectionists. Two promises to his grift-ees. how much more will it take to dump this failure?

[Joinfortmill]

2. ROFL

[TheBlackAdder]

43. Rank amateurs who use open-source (hackable) software and don't even load test it before production.

[CrackityJones75]

60. Open source is hackable?

News to me.

[TheBlackAdder]

64. The myth of open-source is that others review it, when in reality others assume others review it.

.

Sonotype runs security reports yearly on open-sourced software and there are an estimated 1.5 Billion vulnerabilities in them.


It turns out that the only ones reviewing the code are hackers, nation state actors and college academia. Worse is that most every of the open-source projects has hackers and nation state actors injecting vulnerabilities in the source code to later exploit. If vulnerabilities exist, these people don't announce it, they just exploit it.

This is how many sides get hacked. People don't want to pay for development and just lift OS code.


Spring framework was the most exploited about 4-5 years ago and there were major initiatives to clean up some of the vulnerabilities, now, instead of being the number one most vulnerable OS project, they are a moderately vulnerable one.

.

[CrackityJones75]

66. That isn't what you said though.

Opens source isn’t by definition hackable. Lazy coding and lazy review/testing is the issue. That is an issue whether open source or not.

Everyday non open source app companies are hit with ransomware.

[TheBlackAdder]

68. Open System has vulnerabilities that don't show up in testing. You need to know what to exploit.

.

It is hackable by allowing hackers to exploit a vulnerability and enter your system.

They aren't cracking the system, but they are exploiting known exposures.


People using OS software are the lazy and cheap ones and they deserve what they get.

.

[CrackityJones75]

69. Well I have been a programmer and systems engineer for 25 years

What I am saying is that a blanket statement that open source code is inherently bad or susceptible is completely wrong.

You are right that people are lazy though.

[TheBlackAdder]

70. Since 1987 here. Versed on major languages on banking/trade systems that require high security.

.

One of the things we ask new hires to do, drop machine code in front of them and ask them to find the problem.

Most programmers only know how to develop using an interactive development tool.

At 3AM, sometimes you need to read raw dumps.

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[CrackityJones75]

73. Yep I worked for one of the largest banks in the country

for 22 of those years.

Lazy programmers reap bad results.

[TheBlackAdder]

74. I updated above.

.

What I find surprising with the new lot of 'programmers' is that they only know how to build code with Interactive tools. They can't read the compiled/assembled code at all. Many just drag and drop, not knowing what widgets they are doing actually performs. Then, without their tools, they are helpless.

.

[CrackityJones75]

81. Agreed!

totally agree.

For an old scripter it is mindboggling. I prefer to have control over each line of my code.

[reACTIONary]

88. +100 nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Congratulations, Donwuld, you've done it again!

So much winning!

(Pro Tip: Let the cow handle it.)

[Hugin]

50. You called it yesterday.

SEE: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16374405

Congratulations!

[BootinUp]

7. so $6 a month for something that doesn't work? lol

[CurtEastPoint]

8. YOU HAVE TO PAY? Always the grifter.

[PatSeg]

16. I know

Nothing is free in Trump World and apparently nothing works right either.

[jonstl08]

57. Grifting to the end

Why pay if twitter is free. Not the smartest people on the world. Pay 5 per week to here the Orange Fooliuos speak. Good luck with that.

[CurtEastPoint]

67. oh, we PRAY it is 'the end.'

[MissMillie]

21. I thought I read that it was $5/week (n/t)

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[BootinUp]

25. I could be wrong. nt

[keithbvadu2]

58. Is this the one that costs several bucks a month to use? Not yet.

Is this the one that costs several bucks a month to use?


Not yet.... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/truth-social-cost-4-99-a-week/

[multigraincracker]

45. Let me get this straight. You have to pay "billionaire" by the month or week to

allow him to beg for donations every day, if not every hour?

[jonstl08]

59. Watch

These bozos will sign up and click a box for recurring charges then gripe when their account is charged for unauthorized donations to Trumps legal fund or something. He already did this to them before.

[maxrandb]

9. Weren't people also unable to get *rump Steaks

because they were so popular?

I guarantee you one thing for sure. Even if the site shuts down, the monthly auto credit card charges will continue being processed.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Thought Exactly The Same

6 weeks of revenue coming in for a product that doesn't work.
Given who is involved, we shouldn't be surprised.

[Botany]

13. "Weren't people also unable to get" Trump Vodka or Trump U. or Trump Airlines or Trump Baja or ...

.... Trump Taj Mahal or Trump's last social media platform* or ...

Oh well it will not work and it will get shut down and TFG will still feel angry because he can't get on Twitter
and he will have one more failure as NY's AG, Letitia James seizes his properties and shuts down his businesses.

* I forget exactly which "thing" it was but his last attempted @ getting some kind of social media
following had his "thing" get 100s of thousands less followers then the food recipe site Delish so he
shut it down.

[Ray Bruns]

31. Add it to the list of business failures for Dump

[maxrandb]

41. Silly Rabbit. They obviously failed because they were "too popular"

[keithbvadu2]

61. Highly successful at drawing money/donations to the cult of himself.

Highly successful at drawing money/donations to the cult of himself.

The GOP itself has complained that Trump has drawn money away from the party.

[tblue37]

54. It was a pathetic blog.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. 666

The phone verification number they texted to me ended in 666.
8 posted on 2022-02-21 by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)

[PJMcK]

12. Let me understand this

Last edited Mon Feb 21, 2022, 10:37 AM - Edit history (1)

Trump sets up a new social network. Users have to buy the app from the Apple App Store for $4.99. Then there are subscription fees.

Truth Social was announced with great fanfare to launch on Presidents Day (get it?) and the app became available the night before. Unsurprisingly. the thing doesn't work and the CEO of Trump's tech company says he "hopes" the thing will work in the nest 4-5 weeks.

Trump doesn't know anything about technology. Hell, Trump doesn't know anything. Nunes is just as clueless. Only the best people, my ass.

I'll bet the techs Trump & Nunes hired are bottom of the barrel, like the Cyber Ninjas. Add Truth Social to the long list of Trump failures.

ETA: IMPORTANT NOTE
I was incorrect about the cost of the app. It's free, not $4.99. I went to the Apple App Store and sure enough, it's free. I still didn't download it.

[Scrivener7]

14. Makes you realize there is no doubt that the idiot's success as a candidate was definitely

simply the result of much smarter, quiet people pulling his strings and the strings of his moronic followers.

And I wonder whose strings they will pull next.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Maybe the developers put the $4.99 charge in because that's the only way they'll get paid

Or they're making sure it doesn't work until they have been paid ...

[PJMcK]

17. Your second thought makes me smile

I love the idea of someone blackmailing Trump for his money! Hilarious.

[PatSeg]

22. Oh yes, that makes perfect sense

No one in their right mind trusts Trump anymore.

[maxrandb]

42. You missed the most important thing

According to Donnie Dipshit, it's not working because it's sooooo popular that too many people are overloading the site.

Remember, the most important thing to Retrumplicans is to never admit defeat, or failure. The goal is to make as much grift as possible, then settle for a small portions of what you've stolen. Then, you don't even pay the settlement.

It's fucking embarrassing to see millions of Americans snookered by a guy that couldn't sell ice water in hell.

[multigraincracker]

47. Butt dial Rudy had his own IT security company.

So, I'm not shocked at all.

[MissMillie]

18. Don't imagine they'll be refunding each subscriber the 70 cents for the day (n/t)

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[twodogsbarking]

19. Be sure to give Trump your credit card number.

[dalton99a]

20. "No worries. The president has your credit card number and authorization for recurring charges"

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. I have no doubt THAT software works flawlessly! nt

[malaise]

23. The Effin loser loses again

[KS Toronado]

32. I'm so sad I'll have to wait until the end of March to make new friends at only $5 a month

Did I need this?

[Indykatie]

33. Per Snopes There is NO Charge For This POS APP At This Time. n/t

[Scrivener7]

35. But there's this:

However, if you are interested in reserving your username, you will need to donate 35 USD to the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC’s) WinRed page.

https://world-wire.com/truth-social-cost/

I don't even know what that means, "reserving your username."

[multigraincracker]

48. Might be worth reserving "rumpstinydick"

Just for giggles. I'd use one of those gas station pre paid CCs.

[Scrivener7]

85. Oh, coming up with names would be a really good party.

[multigraincracker]

56. Here is the truth from that article.

In an initial statement about his platform, Trump said Truth Social will have no "shadow-banning, throttling, demonetizing, or messing with algorithms for political manipulation,” which can be read as a reference to the de-platforming that has happened to many alt-right figures on mainstream social media sites over the years. “We will not silence our fellow citizens simply because they might be wrong—or worse, because we think that Americans ‘can’t handle the truth,’” Trump said. Notably, though, the site's terms of service says your account can be suspended if you make fun of the platform.

[apnu]

34. Nunes hopes it works in a month. It will be dead by then.

“ On Sunday, Devin Nunes, the former Republican congressman and CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, said that he hopes the new app will be fully operational by the end of March.”

This thing failed as a minimally viable product out of the gate. It will be dead by March, Nunes you cow.

[JI7]

39. Isn't this just another Grift to get people's info and try to collect money ?

[Scrivener7]

40. I do think it's killing him not to have his millions of bot followers he can talk to from the toilet

[SayItLoud]

44. DNS them. NT

[Septua]

46. A $5/month pay-to-play social network...

..called "Truth" that will be nothing more than a propaganda platform...what the hell kinda' service is that? I'd be afraid to join simply due to some sort of automatic billing process that you couldn't cancel.

The link offers some interesting details.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/what-is-truth-social-donald-trumps-social-network-explained

[RobertMcNamara]

72. Warning :

It’s free by the way. The $4.99 week thing turned out by be false. Probably intentionally to make us look bad when we say if to other people.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/truth-social-charging-per-week-debunk/?amp

[Hugin]

49. I'm reporting this as an abortion in TX.

That ten grand is MINE!

Baby needs new shoes.

[orangecrush]

51. A sweet juicy low hanging fruit for the FBI

By all means, proceed!

[bucolic_frolic]

53. Copycat sites subject to patent infringement?

Camera manufacturers were always suing one another. Twitter deployed all that tech but didn't protect its proprietary methods?

[Cozmo]

55. Woke up this morning expecting news of a glitch for this hack site! Wasn't wrong!

[trusty elf]

62. ...

[Javaman]

63. ha!

[Scrivener7]

77. I'm stealing this!!

[keithbvadu2]

65. Nunes still(?) works for trump?

GOP Rep. Defends Devin Nunes By Claiming ‘He Works For The President’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/devin-nunes-ted-yoho-trump_us_58dd24b8e4b05eae031dad44

When MSNBC host Craig Melvin asked Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) if it was appropriate for Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, to meet with a source on White House grounds the day before announcing he had reason to believe the Trump team was subject to “incidental” surveillance, Yoho insisted it was fine because Nunes “works for the president.”

“You’ve got to keep in mind who he works for,” Yoho said. “He works for the president. He answers to the president.”

[Martin68]

75. Trump is so dumb he has no idea what is involved in launching a successful social media site.

On top of that, his reputation will discourage most people from even having a look at it.

[LiberalFighter]

76. By the end of March? Why the delay? Why don't they ask Russia for help?

[muriel_volestrangler]

79. Russian state programmers are busy right now, undermining another democratic country

Nunes hopes they'll be finished in a few weeks.

[Wounded Bear]

82. Yogi Berra - "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded"...

"Others were told that the app was simply too popular for them to join it"

[ultralite001]

83. See for yourself... Check the TS status page...

Truth Social Status Page:

https://truthsocial.statuspage.io


Monitoring - We have stabilized the account creation process. We are working to increase the rate of new account creation.
Feb 21, 19:32 UTC

Past Incidents
Feb 21, 2022

Unresolved incident: Application launch traffic.

* * * * * * *

Probably won't be long before this page is taken down...

[Blue Owl]

87. Devin thought it would be easy for folks to chew the cud on tRump's platform