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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/tr ... d-of-marchSOCIAL MEDIA Published February 9
Trump 'TRUTH Social' launch expected by end of March, sources say
Beta testing for Trump Media & Technology Group's 'TRUTH Social' is underway, a source said
EXCLUSIVE: The servers for former President Donald Trump's TRUTH Social are up and running and will have the platform fully operational by the expected end-of-quarter launch date, FOX Business has learned.
Sources familiar told FOX Business that beta testing for the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) TRUTH Social is also underway, and that the average user in the United States can expect to download the app and create accounts by the end of March.
Sources told Fox News that TMTG is not relying on any traditional big tech companies for infrastructure needs, sources said, but rather on its cloud services partnership with Rumble.
Rumble is the tech partner? Looking forward to seeing it take both DL2XIT and Rumble's public offerings down.
Yet Devin Nunes is still having to crawl and beg like the little worm he is. Any bets on how long before they're kicked out of the app stores?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/trum ... 022-02-07/Analysis: Trump’s Truth Social app, self-proclaimed foe of Big Tech, needs Apple and Google to survive
By Julia Love and Helen Coster
February 7, 2022 6:38 AM EST
Feb 7 (Reuters) - With just weeks to go before an expected launch, Donald Trump’s new media venture is trying to strike a delicate balance with its app: giving Trump's base the freedom to express themselves, without running afoul of Apple and Google’s app store policies. The launch of Truth Social comes a year after the former U.S. president was banned from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. It will be a major test of whether Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and other tech companies that describe themselves as champions of free speech can scale alongside the Silicon Valley gatekeepers that conservatives have accused of squelching free expression.
TMTG has pledged to deliver an “engaging and censorship-free experience” on its Truth Social app, appealing to a base that feels its views around such hot-button topics in American life as vaccines and the outcome of the 2020 presidential election have been scrubbed from mainstream tech platforms. Yet Trump’s tech team must erect guard rails to ensure Truth Social does not get kicked out of the app stores run by Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google - a fate that befell popular conservative app Parler in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riots in the U.S. Capitol. Without these stores, there is no easy way for most smartphone users to download the app.
The risk of such “de-platforming” is a top priority for TMTG Chief Executive Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman, as his team builds the app, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Recognizing that the app will be a major target for hackers from day one, Nunes wants to have cyber talent at the “nation-state level,” one of the people said. Nunes has said publicly that the company’s goal is to launch its Truth Social
app by the end of March.
GiveSendGo had their 3rd hack in 2 weeks. No doubt Devin Nunes can do better!
Here's a real vote of confidence:
https://uinterview.com/news/melania-tru ... th-parler/Melania Trump Snubs Husband’s New Company, Truth Social, In Deal With Parler
by Jacob Linden February 13, 2022, 12:07 pm Daily Digest, News, News Feed
Even as her husband Donald Trump struggles to get his new Twitter-substitute Truth Social ready for its launch later this year, Melania Trump is clearly not waiting for that to get off the ground as she announced an exclusive deal with the app Parler. The news was revealed by Parler in a press statement, where they revealed that the former First Lady “will share exclusive communications on Parler.” Trump was also quoted in the statement as saying, “I am excited and inspired by free speech platforms that give direct communication to people worldwide.”
Parler has been supporting Trump in her recent NFT ventures, providing the web infrastructure for the auction websites of her digital items. Parler is a platform that has become increasingly popular with American conservatives in response to their perception of social apps like Twitter and Facebook becoming overrun by liberal groups.
The Melania Trump NFT projects seem to have been the first step in a comprehensive head-on launch into decentralized cryptocurrencies by Parler, with their CEO George Farmer saying “entering the NFT space is a perfect fit for Parler. We have the experience, technical capabilities, and framework to make this happen.”
Parler’s service was briefly cut off last year when they were criticized for not flagging violent content related to the January 6 attacks on the Capitol, but they have made a comeback last May and are still very popular. The announcement of Ms. Trump’s exclusive social deal comes at an interesting time when her husband has been trying to launch a social network of his own after being banned from Twitter and Facebook. Truth Social was expected to launch on President’s day February 22, but they recently revealed that the app actually won’t be ready until March in a costly delay. They also missed a deadline they set last November to launch a private beta version of the platform.
https://time.com/6147016/trump-truth-social-challenges/Why Trump's TRUTH Social Platform Will Struggle to Compete With Mainstream Social Media
BY MEGAN MCCLUSKEY FEBRUARY 15, 2022 3:53 PM EST
With the launch of former President Donald Trump’s new social media platform, TRUTH Social, originally planned for Feb. 21 but now delayed until late March, Trump’s ability to galvanize conservative social media users in support of the venture could soon be tested. Its initial press has claimed it will “stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech.” But experts say the inherent nature of the site—i.e., catering to a specific idealogical viewpoint—will likely prevent it from reaching the same heights as mainstream platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Discord.
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Although TRUTH Social’s expected release date is still listed as Feb. 21 on the Apple App Store, the stock price of Digital World Acquisition Corp.—the blank-check company that’s partnered with Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) to fund TRUTH Social—plunged earlier this month as news spread of a delay in the platform’s launch. Former congressman Devin Nunes, the recently appointed CEO of TMTG, has said the app will now be released by March 31. Neither Nunes nor TRUTH Social immediately responded to TIME’s request for comment. Still, Tucker says that TRUTH Social’s launch could be a “watershed moment” for the future of alternative social media sites popular with conservatives. “A couple of things could happen [with the TRUTH Social launch],” he says. “By his sheer force of personality, Trump could suck the air out of Parler, Gab, GETTR, all these sites and pull everybody over. And [that would mean the site] could break through the critical threshold and actually get big enough to support real ad revenue…If Trump’s able to do that, it probably means the rest of those platforms fade away and we’re in a new world where we have the mainstream platforms and one really big right-wing platform.” However, if he can’t do that, “then this conversation about whether someone can establish a big right-wing platform likely goes away.”
When it comes to their ability to compete with the big dogs, politically-oriented platforms like TRUTH Social tend to lack some of the more popular social aspects—from photos of friends and family to localized groups and events—of mainstream sites, says Tucker. “When we think about what people are getting out of social media networks, there’s obviously a political component to it, but there can be a huge asymmetry between the impact of social media networks on politics and the importance people place on the political aspects of social media networks compared to everything else they’re getting out of them,” he says. “So if you have a politically organized platform, it’s not giving users exposure to people [in a lot of different social capacities] like social media normally does.”
This reasoning also helps explain why right-wing personalities with major followings on Twitter and other mainstream platforms often experience an initial surge in audience growth followed by a prolonged period of stagnation, or even decline, when making the switch to these alternative sites. “There’s excitement originally, but then people get on [the site] and it has less [social] value,” Tucker says. “So they go there to get their fix of right-wing politics and then they pull out of it.” An analysis conducted by the Washington Post of audience data for 47 prominent right-wing influencers who made the jump to alternative social networks Gab and GETTR, the video platform Rumble, and the chat service Telegram following Trump’s ban from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube last year found that the number of people following these personalities has barely grown since briefly spiking in January 2021. That means right-wing influencers who haven’t been kicked off mainstream platforms could face a difficult decision when deciding whether to make the leap to leave them behind. “If you go to one of these right-wing platforms and leave Facebook and Twitter, you’re leaving a lot of potential people behind who you could be spreading your message to,” Tucker says. “If you don’t leave the mainstream platforms behind, the people who follow you to one of these new places might migrate back because they know they can still get their fix of you on Twitter and also find out what the weather is in their area or what gasoline prices are like or whatever they’re using Twitter for.”
While the success of TRUTH Social will depend on whether the site can find ways to keep users engaged after that original sign-up period, Lerman maintains that ideologically different platforms carving out a place in the Big Tech space could be beneficial for everyone. “It could decrease the temperature on Twitter by siphoning off the more extreme people and giving them a platform to communicate outside of that space,” she says. “As a result, maybe Twitter would become less polarized and the discussions would be more even-tempered.” But without any new technological innovation to offer, Tucker is skeptical that TRUTH Social can break out and become the “major rival to Big Tech” that it’s advertised itself as. “The innovations we get in social media are not by carving up the population into smaller groups, but by introducing new features that people like,” he says. “I haven’t seen a ton of success for this one-trick pony of ‘we’re going to be a free speech site and we’re not going to censor you.'”
RWNJs like Miki Booth have PROMISED they are leaving FB and Twitter (for real this time) when TruthSocial launches. She'd better keep their word this time! No more excuses, Miki! All I want is for them to self-censor themselves and go play in the ditch over there.
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