Truth Social can’t find any advertisers and it’s getting embarrassing
More bad news for Truth Social.According to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Donald Trump‘s Twitter knockoff hasn’t attracted a single paying advertiser and likely won’t have any until at least next year, assuming it’s even still around then.Meanwhile, the app’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, is bleeding money and “expects to incur significant losses into the foreseeable future.”In other words, this whole thing is going exactly like just about every other one of the ex-president’s business ventures.But don’t worry!
Trump has a plan!Elon Musk said he would consider lifting Trump’s permanent Twitter ban should be acquire the blue bird platform for $44 billion later this year.
If this happens, Trump says he’ll consider rejoining, but he’ll publish all his posts on Truth Social first then wait six hours before publishing the same content on any other site.How this is supposed to translate into revenue is anyone’s guess, but CBS News reports:In the short term, Truth Social appears to be banking on an agreement that could help bolster its user base: It will have a six-hour exclusive window on Trump’s messages, according to the filing.
That means even if Twitter lifts its ban on Mr. Trump — which Tesla founder Elon Musk said he will do if he completes his proposed acquisition of the media company — there could be an hours-long lag before his comments appear on the blogging platform or other forums.More likely what will happen is Trump will post something stupid on Truth Social, someone will take a screenshot of it, and the post will appear on Twitter five seconds later, where everyone will mock it.
