Trump's Truth Social app branded a disaster

Building a social media site is really really difficult, Google failed at it, Facebook looks like it's failing to maintain its position, and there's a long history of sites that fell by the wayside (Digg, Myspace, Freindster etc.), so on that side of things these new right wing sites are tackling a really difficult business problem. So this is a difficult business for people who should be good at it. Then you have to consider it's being run by Devin Nunes - a farmer with no background in technology and whose understanding of social media is so deep that his best known achievement is suing a parody account that claimed to be one of his cows (resulting in the cow going viral).

But is it really failing? If Clubhouse had a 1.5 million person waiting list you'd be hearing every VC in silicon Valley screaming about how it's the next big thing and throwing around billion dollar valuations. Having a large waiting list isn't a bad thing, even if it's unintentional. There's absolutely a viable path forward for it as long as it eventually gains some traction. That won't happen until Trump is active on it and that won't happen unless people can freely access it. Trump isn't going to tweet to 5 followers.