Donald Trump’s flailing Truth Social appears to have reached code red status
In the least surprising news of the century, less than one month after its launch, Donald Trump‘s latest business venture, Truth Social, appears to be in a complete freefall.Following a barrage of bad press earlier this week, ex-congressman Devin Nunes, who resigned from office to become CEO of the app’s creator Trump Media and Technology Group, says his team is working “literally around the clock” to try and save the flailing social media brand.Since its launch, Truth Social has been plagued by a number of technical issues and behind-the-scenes chaos.Per the Daily Beast:In recent weeks, sources have heard the former president on the phone swearing gratuitously and asking things like, “What the f*ck is going on” with Truth Social.He’s repeatedly groused about the negative press and the less-than-stellar optics of the rollout, these sources said.
And he’s demanded to know why more people aren’t using it—why the app isn’t swiftly dominating the competition.It has also failed to take off with users.A preliminary report by SimilarWeb, which tracks website traffic from public and private sources, found the site doing “either worse or the same” as several other MAGA social media platforms, including Gab, Gettr, and Parler.According to SimilarWeb’s estimates, Truth Social saw a sharp uptick of roughly 2 million daily visits when it first launched last month, but traffic quickly nosedived to less than 300,000 daily visits shortly after that.Downloads have tanked, too.Newsweek reports that, after becoming the number one free app on the Apple marketplace the week it launched, with 361,000 downloads, Truth Social has fallen down–waaaaay down–to barely 90,000 downloads three weeks later.Related: We can officially add Truth Social to.
