The Emptiness Inside Donald Trump's New Social Media Platform I joined Truth Social. Why do I feel l

[Demovictory9]

Inside Truth Social, everything once blue was now a bright, jewel-toned purple. Tweets, a.k.a. posts, were now “Truths.” Retweets were now “ReTruths,” capital T. And above my username, I saw the site’s default avatar: Twitter’s cream-colored egg icon, the image given to all new users, had apparently given birth to a proud purple eagle. The rest of the site appeared familiar: Replies were still replies. Likes were still likes. Direct messages, still in development, were still direct messages. And Donald Trump was still @realDonaldTrump — followed, as of this writing, by 140,000 people, a tiny fraction of his onetime total audience on Twitter. Only one Truth appeared on his page: “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!” he wrote two weeks ago, before the app’s launch. The Truth displayed 7,750 ReTruths, 30,500 likes and 4,700 replies. (Inexplicably, unlike replies on other user posts, none of the responses to Trump’s message were visible to me.)

A Truth by Trump on the Truth Social platform reading 'Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!'
In my inbox, an unsigned email welcomed me to “our Truth Seeking community.”

Most people are still awaiting entry to this purple-shaded landscape. Eleven days after its launch on Feb. 21, timed for the indistinct federal holiday that is President’s Day, I was welcomed to Donald Trump’s new online home after holding the 169,685th spot on the waitlist. (The line is hundreds of thousands of users long, according to other people waiting to get in.)

The site promises a safe space for “free expression,” encouraging of “all viewpoints,” according to the welcome email, “as we do not discriminate against political ideology.” But inside the app, digital tumbleweeds blew through my feed. The site is a bit slow, and a bit empty. Its stalled roll-out, led by Devin Nunes, the Trump supporter and former Republican congressman from California, has become a source of frustration and confusion in MAGA-world, according to my colleague Meridith McGraw. Republican lawmakers like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy already have accounts and appear to be posting similar or identical content to both Truth Social and Twitter, along with right-leaning platforms like Gettr and Parler. (Apparently, no one is quite ready to turn their backs on an actual audience yet.) But when they do finally get their welcome emails, the thousands of regular Trump fans still waiting in line, eager for their chance to search for truth, will find a Twitter knock-off with no immediately discernible improvement on the original — a vanity project that has yet to prove its utility.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/05/truth-social-emptiness-donald-trump-00014355

[dweller]

1. What color

are the alternative facts ??
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[ultralite001]

2. Photoshopped Truth Social Home Page...

Couldn't help but notice Mr Bob Jones' profile picture has been whitewashed since 03/03/2022...

Note Mr Jones' work link (joneworks.studio) posted here:

[link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220303004910/https://truthsocial.com/|]

and compare it with the one currently posted here:

[link:https://truthsocial.com/|]


The original work link for Mr Jones redirects here:

[link: https://m.startribune.com/trump-america-s-sorest-loser/600011623/|]

Guess the truth hurts...