Donald Trump's media group released its TRUTH Social app today in the U.S., but a Scan of the app using publicly available tools revealed that it already closed itself to registration.
TRUTH Social is the #1 free download in the App Store, but most users can't get into the app. Before you can use TRUTH Social, you have to enter your email and date of birth. Errors were received at every step of the process. It was impossible to create an account after we received a verification email. Some users have reported being placed on a waiting list with over 100,000 users, while others never received verification emails or couldn't move past the verification step. The Trump Media and Technology Group was reached out to for comment on the sign-up difficulties.
After he was removed from social media after attacking the Capitol, former President Trump became interested in building his own platform. The mission of the TMTG is to create a rival to the liberal media consortium and fight back against the Big Tech companies.
The image is from TRUTH Social.
The announcement of TRUTH Social was accompanied by growing pains. The code from Mastodon was used in the new social network.
The terms of service claimed that the site is proprietary property and all source code and software are owned or controlled by them. The AGPLv3 license requires any over-the-network service using it to make its source code and any modifications to it publicly accessible.
Mastodon's source code was added to TRUTH Social's website in December.
Our goal is to support the open source community no matter what your political beliefs are. The first place we go to find amazing software is the community, according to TRUTH Social.
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Trump serves as Chairman of the company, and in December, Congressman Devin G. Nunes left the House of Representatives to become its CEO.
In an interview with Fox News this weekend, Nunes said that the full launch of TRUTH Social is a few weeks away.
"We bring on more and more Americans every day, and we're getting to you as soon as possible," he said on Fox News.
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