Truth Social

2022 - 4 - 28

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Elon Musk suggests name change for Trump's Truth Social (New York Post)

New Twitter owner Elon Musk has some free advice for former President Donald Trump's fledgling “Truth Social” app – quipping Wednesday that rival social ...

But the stock rebounded on Wednesday, surging more than 11%. Trump had nearly 90 million followers before he was permanently banned from Twitter and other social media platforms after his supporters participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “Because Twitter with Trump is a far more exotic product, it seems to me, than the opposite.”

Musk vs. Trump? Elon Slams Truth Social For 'Terrible Name' After ... (Forbes)

Prospective Twitter owner Elon Musk appears to already be going on the offensive against competitors, like former President Donald Trump's Truth Social, ...

Truth Social is part of a planned broader media venture for the Trump Media and Technology Group, which plans to go public through a merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), a special purpose acquisition company. Musk’s purchase still needs regulatory approval and is subject to a final vote from Twitter’s shareholders. Serious doubt has been cast on the Truth Social’s future after Twitter’s board unanimously approved Musk's $44 billion offer to purchase 100% of the company’s shares and turn it private.

The strange new political rivalry between Truth Social and Twitter (The Washington Post)

Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter has created an unexpected race to the right with the former president.

In that light, it’s not surprising that Twitter might try to change its public perception to appeal to the same group of users. It’s Musk agreeing with the complaints about Twitter — so much so that he decided to buy the company and affect those changes. By migrating to Rumble’s hosting platform, though, the company will be able to “scale significantly,” it said in a news release — adding “on a new and cancel-culture-free cloud platform.” (By “cloud platform,” the company meant a separate company that operates the servers on which Truth Social’s content will live.) Musk replied that the situation “[s]ounds pretty bad,” which, as presented, it does — since it’s meant to sound bad and is not demonstrably true. Gadde is Twitter’s top attorney and was on the podcast in 2019 to discuss the site’s moderation policies, for which she is responsible. The meme also focused a great deal of hostility on Gadde, as The Post has reported. This is the same reason that Trump himself was suspended from Twitter: not because of his opinions but out of concern that he might again foment violence in Washington. Some users erroneously thought this was somehow Musk at the controls or, slightly more feasibly, Twitter tweaking its algorithms to be more conservative-friendly. He wasn’t complimentary, really, suggesting that “Truth Social” was a bad name and “Trumpet” a better one, which isn’t necessarily wrong. The result, at least for now, is that the social media giant appears to be trying to compete with Trump’s tiny start-up for the same pool of attention. The Newsmax host pointed to the social media platform Parler being booted from its cloud-service providers, something that Nunes agreed wouldn’t happen to Truth Social. And the news about Musk’s acquisition of Twitter gave him even more reason to be booked as a guest.

Elon Musk suggests new name for Trump's Truth Social app as he ... (The Independent)

“Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech,” Mr Musk tweeted. “Should be called Trumpet instead!” Mr Musk brought up Mr Trump's ...

“We’re taking in millions of people, and what we’re finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter,” Mr Trump said. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH. I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH,” he said.

Trump-tied SPAC roars back as Truth Social tops app store (Aljazeera.com)

Shares of Digital World Acquisition jumped 24% Wednesday as downloads of Trump's social network spiked almost tenfold.

Details surrounding the former president’s media venture have been scarce and the rollout of Truth Social was plagued by snags and delays. Wednesday’s rally started in premarket hours, following a tweet by Elon Musk, who is purchasing competitor Twitter Inc., in which he said that Truth Social passed both Twitter and TikTok on the Apple App Store overnight. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. leaped 24% Wednesday as thousands more users gained access to Truth Social’s full functionality and downloads jumped almost tenfold.

channelnews : Truth Social Beating Twitter On App Store (ChannelNews)

“Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech,” Musk tweeted. “Should be called Trumpet instead!”.

Truth Social is currently beating Twitter & TikTok on the Apple Storepic.twitter.com/RxawVUAYKH Elon Musk has pointed out that the Trump-endorsed social media app Truth Social is currently beating Twitter on the Apple App store charts, suggesting this as a casualty of free speech suppression. Truth Social Beating Twitter On App Store

'Should be called...': Elon Musk suggests name change for Trump's ... (Hindustan Times)

"Should be called Trumpet instead!" Musk said, adding to tweets about Truth Social ranking above Twitter on the Apple store.

"Truth Social is currently beating Twitter & TikTok on the Apple Store. Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech." Musk said, adding to tweets about Truth Social ranking above Twitter on the Apple store. "I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth," Trump told Fox News. "I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth."

Musk says Trump's Truth Social 'exists because Twitter censored ... (Fox Business)

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Wednesday writing that its competitor Truth Social, which he says has a “terrible name,” only exists because of ...

Change % Change Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Wednesday writing that its competitor Truth Social, which he says has a "terrible name," only exists because of Twitter’s censorship of free speech.

Truth Social Review: Trump's Uncensored Social App Is Incomplete (The New York Times)

The Trump-backed social media app is inundated with phony accounts and features that don't work. It also hides some posts, including those with curse words.

Like Twitter and Facebook, Truth Social has a terms of service that states that illegal activity is not allowed on the app. In some cases, the app appeared stricter than Twitter. While Twitter allows some pornographic content, Truth Social forbids sexual content and language altogether, according to its terms of service. But Nathaniel Persily, a professor at Stanford Law School, said the notion that Truth Social could be an uncensored social network was ultimately far-fetched. Ms. Wu worked with Twitter to develop safety guidelines after Gamergate, the 2014 internet campaign to troll critics of the male-dominated gaming industry. The former president has posted only one Truth and that was back in February: “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!” To date, he has accrued 1.88 million followers. Trying to do a keyword search for a Truth was nonfunctional. And while some posts that were prohibited on Twitter were available on Truth Social, other types of posts were hidden because of curse words. After choosing a user name and avatar (I uploaded a picture of my Labrador), I began my Truth Social experience. I decided to wade into this stew by testing Truth Social. Despite its hype, the app had a glitchy debut. The app’s surge in popularity this week caught the attention of Mr. Musk, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist. Truth Social has long positioned itself as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook, both of which famously barred Mr. Trump from their sites after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol last year. At the same time, there is more uncertainty about Twitter. Some Twitter users deactivated their accounts this week after the news broke that Mr. Musk was buying the site and questions arose about how he might change the platform.

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump's Truth Social: 'The social media equivalent ... (The Guardian)

Late-night hosts discuss Trump's beleaguered social media app, his claim he won't return to Twitter, and Melania Trump's 52nd birthday.

Remember, they’d chase them and be like ‘do you agree with the president that it should be illegal to speak Spanish?’ And the senators would have to come up with new ways to answer without answering.” You remember what it was like when he was on Twitter – he would say something, he would tweet something random like ‘Congress should make it illegal to speak Spanish,’ and then all day reporters would be tracking down Republican senators in the hallway. Noah also cited reports that a lot of Republicans would be secretly thrilled if Trump never returned to Twitter, “because they don’t like the drama that he would create”, Noah said. “To put it in perspective, Twitter, the thing that it’s supposed to be replacing, has 217 million daily users,” Noah said. “So Truth Social is ‘competition’ for Twitter the same way that guy on the plane was ‘competition’ for Mike Tyson.” “And then this dumb new company he conned everybody out of their money for will become, I guess, the social media equivalent of a RadioShack.”

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