Truth Social in limbo as merger partner grapples with another failed vote

Digital World needed 65 percent of its shareholders to vote in support of giving the merger with Truth Social another year. But not enough voted by Thursday's deadline and it was unclear what the next step would be.

The Washington Post

"Report: Trump Is Blowing a Gasket Over His Joke of a Social Media Network...

...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...."

#Shadenfruede #IsolateTrump

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/donald-trump-truth-social-failure

Report: Trump Is Blowing a Gasket Over His Joke of a Social Media Network

Truth Social has been a complete disaster and the ex-president seems to know it.

Vanity Fair

So here is our plan: we will keep actively watching the #TruthSocial psudo-failed-partial launch.

We know the early signs are that it is NOT federtating. But until it is fully and really launched -- MAYBE in March as they claim - we won't be assuming anything is final.

More to come. #IsolateTrump

https://www.axios.com/trump-blowing-truth-social-launch-c2d4f1f0-5440-478a-acfa-b9462b64568c.html

Trump's Truth Social bomb

The SPAC that agreed to take Truth Social public is valued at over $3.5 billion. Investors will begin paying attention at some point.

Axios
So #TruthSocial seems live now but many reporting errors like this. Not clear if it is trying to Federate or not yet. #IsolateTrump
Mikael Thalen on Twitter

“SCOOP: Tried the Truth Social beta. But not the one Trump & his fans are testing, the one used internally by his team, which left the site publicly accessible online (again). Registered @realDonaldTrump & found a user praising dictator Augusto Pinochet https://t.co/W4nqwk0TzQ”

Twitter
Heads up, everyone. Monday might be the public launch of #TruthSocial. If whatever that forked #Mastodon thing turns out to be tries to Federate, you all know what to do. #IsolateTrump #mastodev #mastoadmim #fediblock https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-trumps-truth-social-app-set-release-monday-apple-app-store-per-2022-02-20/
Exclusive: Trump's Truth Social app set for release Monday in Apple App Store, per executive

Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple's App Store on Monday, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by Reuters, potentially marking the return of the former president to social media on the U.S. Presidents Day holiday.

Reuters

So at least 500 users are beta testing #TruthSocial.

And yes, if you read this the early testers are exactly who you would expect.

Keep wondering if folks will get access to this pre-launch, like they did the previous two betas. Or if we see any early signs of it attempting to federate.

If anyone finds anything LMK and we'll shout it out.

#IsolateTrump

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-trump-app-opens-hundreds-testers-ahead-expected-launch-2022-02-17/

Exclusive: Trump app opens to hundreds of testers ahead of expected launch

Details about former U.S. President Donald Trump's new social media app are trickling out as about 500 beta testers have begun using an early version of “Truth Social,” two sources told Reuters.

Reuters

Hmmm. It's in beta somewhere (if late)... Keep wondering if some folks end up finding it again, like they got in early to the first two beta sites of #truthsocial

#IsolateTrump

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10517549/Don-Jr-posts-screenshot-claiming-Trumps-post-new-1b-Truth-Social-platform.html

Don Jr. posts screenshot claiming to be Trump's first post on new $1b Truth Social platform 

Truth Social is slated to launch Monday, according to its Apple App Store listing. The platform is almost an identical replica of Twitter, which Trump was an avid user on before being suspended.

Daily Mail

Shocker: #TrumpSocial launch delayed…

#IsolateTrump

Claims are that #TruthSocial will launch by end of March, and that beta servers are live again. Last two times they were live, they were discovered as public and content shared. Any signs of beta now?

#IsolateTrump