Truth Social wasn't going to be able to compete. The field is just too crowded, and there's only so many people his personality was going to drag along with him.
“Truth Social’s monthly web and desktop visits reached a high of 11.5 million visitors in August 2022 but have been on the decline since then, falling to just 5.7 million in February,” according to Similarweb stats quoted in a Bloomberg report on Wednesday.
Twitter, Truth Social’s inspiration and rival, had 6.1 billion visits in the same timeframe. I wouldn’t even hazard a guess how people like me, who for work must keep multiple Twitter tabs open in Tweetdeck virtually 24/7/365, add up in that figure. Journalists and opinion writers don’t visit Twitter so much as we’re always there.
I write for a certain blog that generates more traffic than Truth’s social media platform does and for another one that’s closing in on it. To put it bluntly, a social media platform can’t thrive with blogger numbers.
When Twitter banned Trump in 2020, the founder of Gab Andrew Torba archived ALL of Trump's tweets and told Trump that he could have it all on Gab. Trump decided that he could do it better himself. As we're seeing, that's not quite the case.
I have nothing against Truth Social. I just have no interest in using it.
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