Vanity Fair hit piece on Truth Social.
>When Twitter banned Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection, the former president had two choices. The first was to accept that he no longer had a platform through which to terrorize the human race with every thought that came into his head and move on. The second was to throw a conniption fit over his First Amendment rights having supposedly been violated, and to use the opportunity to engage in some typical grifter-y behavior, such as launching a Twitter competitor through a shell company and making money off of his supporters. Obviously, Trump chose the latter, and while the money-making aspect seems to have worked out well for him thus far, the actual social media network is on track to be a bigger flop than Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, and the Trump Taj Mahal combined. And despite famously having a very loose grasp on reality, he apparently knows it!
>The Daily Beast reports that when he’s not praising Vladimir Putin or coming up with ways to start a war between Russia and China, Trump has been incessantly whining about what an embarrassing flop Truth Social has turned out to be. Sources tell The Daily Beast they’ve heard the ex-president “swearing gratuitously” about the app on the phone and asking “What the fuck is going on” with the social network. Trump has regularly complained about the bad press and “less-than-stellar optics” the rollout has received, and demanded to know why it hasn’t immediately become a runaway success, according to reporters Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng.
>Of course, that probably has something to do with the platform itself being an unmitigated disaster. On the day it launched, would-be users were reportedly hit with numerous glitches and outrageously long wait times, with some being forwarded to an “access denied” error page. A reporter from Business Insider had to try the initial email-confirmation process five times before being able to create an account. Of the users who were actually able to create accounts, many were told they’d been placed on a wait list of what appeared to be more than 100,000 people. The app went partially dark for more than 12 hours due to “application launch traffic.“ Its logo is reportedly almost identical to that of another company that existed long before Truth Social hit the scene.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/donald-trump-truth-social-failure