Truth social it is Donald Trump's version of twitter, it officially went live on
the app store marking Donald Trump's returned to social media.
But it wasn't quite the triumphant return that Donald Trump had been hoping for,
the app is face issues since its launch.
Some users simply cannot access the app as of today, what happened, what went wrong?
Well first some context last night starting at around 11P.M Eastern time in
the us East Coast.
Users who tried to sign up for truth social event with an error message reading
something went wrong please try again.
Some users have been added to wait lists, tens of thousands of people in length.
A reporter for the Daily Beast was sitting at 94427th place on the wait list as
of this morning, others are stuck in the verification screen.
Of course it was Donald Trump who refused to shut up about the Obamacare website
problems, remember that?
Donald trump wrote back and then 2013.
Wow, the Obamacare website which President Obama said would be working today
is a total mess with many functions not even thought about.
I know a great deal about websites etc but I am unable to understand how our
government can spend $635 million on the Obamacare site and disaster.
The US rocket that blew up and crashed yesterday is emblematic of
the United States under Obama nothing works, be it a rocket or a website.
Well CEO and
former congressman Devin Nunes told Fox news on Sunday that truth social hopes to
make the app fully operational in the United States by the end of March.
Today this update was posted to the truth social website.
Due to the overwhelming demand at launch,
we are currently rate limited on onboarding new users to the platform.
We are working to increase sign of capacity for onboarding and
we'll continue to update said the status as capacity increases.
Sadly this update does seem to be accurate as of this morning Truth Social is
the number one free app on the app store.
Some of the right wing grifters who have already joined include
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn, Steven Crowder and Dinesh D'Souza.
The question is, will this massive following last,
as one person wrote on Twitter.
TrueSocial will fail for the same reasons all the other MAGA twitter clones GETTR,
Parler fail, there's no one there to bully.
Once they realize no one's getting mad at their intentional provocations will
come back to twitter not enough intention for their hate there.
The purpose of the app does seem to be more of a mouthpiece for
Donald Trump than a some sort of platform for genuine interaction.
Trump is building a community that will fight for something or
whatever he stands for that day.
This is not social media for friends and family to share pictures, writes,
John Matze of the New York times.
It is also a complete rip off of twitter, the posts all look alike like
tweets complete with similar looking reply, retweet, share and like buttons.
The profile page looks like you're viewing a user's account on twitter,
perhaps the biggest difference is the dystopian renaming of tweets as truths.
TruthSocial has raised a lot of investor money, but
legal problems prevent the company from accessing that money.
According to the New York times in September Trump media agreed to merge with
Digital World Acquisition.
A blank check where special purpose acquisition company that raised
$300 million.
The two entities have raised $1 billion from 36 investors in a private placement.
But none of that money can be tapped until regulators wrap up their inquiry into
whether digital world flouted securities regulations and
planning its merger with Trump media.
In the meantime, Trump media currently valued at more than $10 billion digital
world stock price is trying to hire people to build its platform.
So they needs a little more building done in terms of the technical side
of this act, Jack.
>> Okay, so that Tim $10 billion dollar number, believe it or not is real.
So if all they have to do is show bare minimum
competence, it's super low bar and.
Trump is gonna stumble into finally his dream,
his whole life billions of dollars, he's never had it.
He's lied about it his whole life,
on two separate occasions he had over $400 million.
One was literally handed to him by his dad,
another one was close to handed to him by NBC for the apprentice.
But he actually did work for
the apprentice such as it is tiny amount of work that it is but
he blew both of those $400 million dollars and he's gone bankrupt six times.
But now finally he was gonna get to be a billionaire but
he just can't help himself.
He's a serial bungler, why would you hire Devin Nunes?
All you gotta do is hire,
you know how many right wingers there are in Silicon Valley now,
since they're all rich half those guys are ditag right wingers now.
Just pick one of them, there at least most of them are, believe it or
not are not morons.
And they can halfway quarter away run a company,
Devin Nunes is a weirdo political hack who's one of the dumbest people alive.
Maybe that's why him and Trump got along so
well they're like me copy twitter together.
And you schmucks,
you can't have a waiting list of [LAUGH] what the hell is a waiting list on an app.
Guys if you don't ,look I'm in digital media,
what you wanna do is you wanna do is to reduce friction that's what it's called.
So when somebody goes to sign up for
something you wanted to be as easy as possible.
Hey you could already use your google account, your Facebook account,
that reduces friction and you get on as quickly as possible.
You know what?
As friction, I'm not gonna let you on try to remember to come back here later.
My God, that's a disaster, in the digital media world, if you were in any
other organization, you'd be fired instantly for that kind of a disaster.
At last I saw they had over 120,000 people on their waiting list.
That means they're trying to get your app and you won't let them because you're so
deeply incompetent.
We will now launch this, but later we will launch it at the end of March then look,
David, there are things called a soft launch.
We do them all the time,
we just put it out there but you're supposed to be experimenting with it, etc.
You're not doing publicity,
you're just trying to figure out how things are going, right?
We got a newsletter that called the progress report that we're doing
that on now, but we don't go to the world and go, the progress report.
It's the greatest thing, okay then everybody comes and goes,
you can't sign up.
[LAUGH] What, okay I mean, this is Donald Trump 101.
>> I will say that, I think the newsletter that we have now
from Jonathan Larson is the greatest thing ever.
I mean it's a great read but yeah, you're right,
I mean you set expectations that it's the greatest thing ever.
And then there's no way you could possibly mean expectations and
that is sort of politics 101.
And that's what just sort of puzzles me in there eagerness to say,
we're going to do something different than twitter.
We're gonna have something the truth, social media, whatever they wanna call it.
I mean they made it out to be something so spectacular and so wonderful.
And sure they got a lot of the Trump stirs, the misguided people in our country
who decided, yeah, that's a great way to talk to one another.
But they have, I mean have these sort of issues when they knew,
what they were sort of getting into.
And they knew the failures that they had with Parler and the other ones.
Look, Devin Nunes has never run anything but his mouth [LAUGH] and his career.
He's never been in charge of any business that I know of and
he's never been successful at it.
So why would Devin Nunes suddenly be in charge of this new social
media app when he's got absolutely no background in that sort of thing?
Well because it's not about social media, it's not about technology,
it's about Devin Nunes lining his own pockets by being somehow close to Trump.
And so I suppose you could have predicted that there was gonna be some major problem
like this.
>> Well not only could we have, I did,
but that I don't even give myself credit for that.
Cuz that's the world's easiest prediction and
everybody knew that that was gonna happen.
So, but look to your point, why does Donald Trump picked Devin Nunes?
Okay, I get why Devin Nunes wants to go his, he was redistricted,
that's now more of a Democratic district in a Republican one.
He was likely gonna lose and he's making millions over here, I get his motivation,
but Trump picking this clown who's never run a business.
And I'll tell you why it's because Trump is a basically like a mob boss and
he picks his subordinates based on loyalty and corruptness.
Will you be corrupt with me and will you be loyal to me as opposed to competence?
Cuz like I said, I mean he can go to Silicon Valley and pick
any random dude who's, and by the way, they don't even have to be a right winger.
Then you know how much they are obsessed with money in Silica's Silicon Valley.
You can probably find a moderate or even, I hope no progressives will do it,
[LAUGH] but you can easily find a moderate Democrat.
Cuz they're all gonna make billions if they just do it 10% competently.
But he's bungling it all over himself because he can't help but
pick corrupt people, by the way, tweet you read David is a great point.
All these things are gonna flame out in the long run, no matter what happens,
no matter who makes billions in the meanwhile, in the short run.
Because the number one thing that right wingers love to do is own the Libs,
that their whole reason for existing these days is fear and hatred.
And so when they're just in a room with each other, well,
who are they gonna to fight with?
Who are they gonna bully, who are they gonna make fun of,
who are they gonna try to own?
No, it's definitely dull, that's why they come back to real social media and
go, okay, there's the guys we wanted to hate.
So without anyone to hate these things are destined for long term failure.
And I'll throw it out there since we mentioned it,
you could kind of sign up for the progress report at TYT dot com slash newsletter.
We'll put the link below, it's a soft launch.
>> [LAUGH] Great stuff and then when people are looking for
a little bit of snark, it's there, so anyway.
>> Yeah, Jonathan probably snark about Trump's outlet, but it's mainly for
progressive news that the mainstream media doesn't cover enough.