Trump’s Twitter clone ‘Truth Social’ goes live, but good luck joining

Donald Trump has lastly launched his long-awaited Reality Social app this week, and early experiences do not paint too a fairly image for the social media app, even when the critiques counsel in another way.

The app was created as a response to the previous U.S. president being suspended from main social media platforms corresponding to Twitter, Fb, and YouTube. These platforms have been criticized by some for his or her moderation insurance policies within the wake of political unrest amid the 2020 election and the misinformation across the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the meantime, Reality Social notably appears to be like practically similar to Twitter, from the profile designs to the “Reality Feed,” with posts that function buttons just like Twitter’s Retweet, Like, and Share buttons.

Reality Social describes itself as a “Massive Tent” social media platform that “encourages an open, free, and sincere international dialog with out discriminating in opposition to political ideology,” at the least in response to its Apple App Retailer itemizing.

Since its debut on Sunday night time, the app managed to high the charts on Apple’s App Retailer, gaining a 4.1 ranking amongst greater than 11,000 critiques. Nevertheless, that is the place the reward ends, because the app was nearly instantly hit with a 13-hour outage and loads of glitches, as reported by The Washington Put up. There additionally seems to be a mighty prolonged waitlist that tops 400,000 in response to CNN.

And should you’re occupied with downloading the app on any of the very best Android telephones, it appears you may have to attend even longer because the Android model is not but out there and is presently listed as “coming quickly.”