Get ready! Your favourite president will see you soon!’ Donald Trump’s first post on his billion-dollar social media app, Truth Social, is not his best. But his moment of Truth hasn’t quite gone to plan.
Since the ‘free-speech haven’ soft launched on 21 February — President’s Day, natch — it’s been beset with bugs, outages and waiting times so long that even die-hard supporters are losing faith. ‘I created my account within five minutes of it going live,’ one Truth user complained on Twitter. ‘My email said my wait-list number was 25,021. I got up the next morning [and] it had jumped. It hasn’t moved in a week!’ Another user grumbled, ‘I started at number 1,800 or so. Now I’m 94k. And it’s not updating. I’m pretty much over it.’ Trump’s first post is his sole post in a fortnight. It won’t be ‘fully operational’ until the end of this month.
