After Donald Trump Launched Conservative Twitter Alternative 'Truth Social,' The @donaldjtrump Account Immediately Posted Pig Poop Balls
Donald Trump, clearly determined to regain the rush of having a Twitter account after the site banned him for spreading election information ahead of the January 6th Storming of the Capitol, has released his own Twitter alternative for conservatives, dubbed "Truth Social." Within hours, the @donaldjtrump account tweeted a picture of Pig Poop Balls. The site was then closed for security purposes.
The former president's new company, Trump Media and Technology Group, heralded Truth Social as the first foray into a conservative media empire that would someday rival Disney, Facebook, etc., but, as with other supposed conservative alternatives to popular social networks, it was easily overrun by trolls in the early hours of its launch.
The site, which replaces tweets with "Truths" and retweets with "Re-Truths," has several quirks which seem particularly un-Trumpian. For example its terms of service state it will ban the "excessive use of capital letters," which is very much what Trump was known for during his time on Twitter. However, you can be banned for attempting to "disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm" Truth Social in the opinion of its moderators (for example, saying "Truth Social sucks, where's our edit button?" could be a bannable offense).
Truth Social seems to be yet another attempt from Trump to return to the online space. Earlier this year, he posted on a blog called From the Desk of Donald Trump, though it was discontinued less than a month after launch after it pulled in scrawny traffic numbers.
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Gumshoe
People want to dunk on this because obviously it would be terrible. Trump has zero knowledge of tech or how to build a product like this, so it was always going to flop. But that might not really be the point. I think the real purpose of this is to give rich investors a chance to buy influence/favour with Trump by putting some money into it, which is far more valuable than some knock-off Twitter website.
Triplem
Panuru
The right can't code.
ObadiahtheSlim
Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube all had the exact same problems at one point.
Panuru
People being able to log in as the founder?
ConspiracyNut
Facebook, literally just a few weeks ago, locked out their own entire staff and shut down for several hours.
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Amauri E. Alcantara
I cannot wait to see the Truth Social ban speed run entry.
A Concerned Rifleman
I feel people misunderstand social media as a whole. A majority of people don't go onto social media because it has their sort of ideological lean, they go on it because these same 4 sites have an Oligopoly of the blogosphere.
I grantee that absolutely no artist would use Twitter if a quality art site popped up.
Electric Dictator Bedebao
Pixiv.
Timey16
Eh Pixiv is a bit bloated and loads fairly slow.
What is actually an art site with an incredible well functioning frontend is Inkbunny, good tagging system, nice multipage uploading system, allowing to update existing uploads with notifications etc…. only it's where the sickest furry shit that even Furaffinity didn't want landed.
hipnox
Artstation.
People probably just use twitter because of the exposure
Pokejoseph64
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I bet 5 internets that it either doesn't even get approved or it gets removed the day it launches
Also. Twitter is the problem. Stop trying to make a "right wing Twitter." We don't need more Twitters, we need less.
Revtim
approved by who?
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Apple.
Geigh Science
alright everyone stay civil
… please for the love of christ stay civil
no cringerino porfa
Geigh Science
"but sir I think organe man is bad for certain reasons"
"you fool! oregano man is very good for entirely different reasons!"
"zounds! curses and radishes upon you! Organe man has had knowing relations with mine wife!"
"pogs! oregano man is far baseder than I imagined!"