Trump's "Ghost Town" Social Media App

We've been reading stories in the past few weeks about the Malignant Loser's failing "Truth Social" scam of a social media venture. The Malignant Loser himself is reported to be angry that he's not drawing the numbers he once drew on Twitter and Facebook before being banned from both for repeated lying and sedition. Here's a report from Business Insider's Rosie Bradbury that confirms that it's going nowhere:

"I downloaded the Truth Social app on launch day and created an account – only to be told I'd been put on a waitlist in spot number 157,120. Three weeks later, on March 14, I was finally allowed to use the app.

And I found…not very much. It was like a conservative ghost town that had been overrun by bots. [snip]

The signs so far are that Truth Social is a flop.

Since it launched, downloads and time spent on the app have trended downwards. It has slumped from being the number one download on Apple's US App Store to number 173, according to an analysis by Similarweb."

Once Bradbury got into the site, she reports that "my suggested follows were sometimes weird, and my feed didn't contain much original content," weird as in killer Kyle Rittenhouse's account and "hot chicks golfing." The direct message function wasn't working either. Also, Bradbury reports:

"Interestingly, Fox News, which was once Trump's news network of choice, didn't appear to have a presence. There was an account called @FoxNewsChannel but it only had 5,920 followers, and has only posted 30 'truths' altogether.

There was an RSS aggregating bot for Fox Sports' website, which had 76,300 followers, but the account didn't appear to be affiliated with Fox itself."

Embarrassingly enough, many right-wing commentators / propagandists weren't on the site, including the noxious Ben Shapiro and the hateful Alex Jones, nor were any Senators of either party.

Add this to Trump steaks, Trump University, and the 2020 election, among other things. The Malignant Loser strikes out again.

BONUS: The WaPo's Dana Milbank also tried the app so you don't have to.

(photo: Depiction of "Truth Social" headquarters and parking lot. Stockdonkey/Shutterstock)