(John Ransom, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump’s new social-media platform, Truth Social, is live right now on President’s Day, according to a report from Reuters.
I’ve been a beta tester for Trump’s Truth Social app. Follow me there once it rolls out to the Apple App Store tomorrow. The media is gonna meltdown first thing Monday morning. 😂 pic.twitter.com/N8GWJq7Idm
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) February 21, 2022
“In a series of posts late on Friday, a verified account for the network’s chief product officer, listed as Billy B., answered questions on the app from people invited to use it during its test phase,” said Reuters.
When asked when the app will be available to the general public, the executive said “Monday Feb. 21,” according to screenshots of the chat viewed by Reuters.
The app, which had soft-launched on an invitation-only basis reached the top of the Apple app store on Monday, but it continued to be unavailable to many hopeful users due to error messages during the registration process, the leftist TechCrunch reported.
It was not yet available in Google Play, the other major app distributor, nor was it available for direct download via the Truth Social website. A link there redirected to a preview of the Apple Store download page.
Other leftist sites reported that technical difficulties and legal troubles could delay it from being fully operational in the immediate future.
Truth Social describes itself as “America’s ‘Big Tent’ social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.”
The platform is based on a Twitter format, a favorite short-form of conversation that Trump himself relied heavily on prior to receiving a permanent ban from the site following the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising at the US Capitol.
“The platform appears to have an interface similar to Twitter and includes functions like replies, retweets, faves, and sharing,” said the Gateway Pundit.
Prior to getting booted from Twitter, Trump had 88 million followers on the social media platform according to the BBC.
Former GOP congressman Devin Nunes, now overseeing Truth Social, said that they had to build the app from scratch because other social media developers wouldn’t touch the project from fear of retaliation by Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter.
“We have so many people who don’t want to see us be successful, whether that be the Big Tech companies, the fake news media complex that’s out there, or even foreign governments and other bad actors,” Nunes told Newsmax.
Still some worry that gatekeepers like the Apple Store and Google Play will eventually try to muscle Truth Social out of the market if given the slightest excuse.
“There simply is no way to avoid big tech,” Darrell West, a senior technology innovation fellow at the far-left Brookings Institution, told the BBC.
“Even if he [Trump] has his own platform, if he’s violating their terms of service, they could basically push his app out of their app store, which would make it very difficult for him to build an audience,” West claimed.