Report That Truth Social Is Down 93 Percent In Signups Causes Wave Of Schadenfreude On Twitter

This may not come as much of a surprise to some, but Truth Social, essentially a Twitter clone seen by many as Donald Trump's attempt to rebuild his social media following after he was banned by Twitter in January 2021, is apparently failing to attract users.

Earlier this week, The Wrap reported that Truth Social, run by former Congressman Devin Nunes, had seen an alarming 93 percent decline in new signups since its rocky launch in February, and has also seen a similar dip in overall usage. In its first week of launch, the app had about 860,000 downloads. That number has now dipped to about 60,000 per week.

It's sort of wild that Truth Social just evaporated.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 31, 2022

Analysts have pointed to several reasons to explain why Truth Social is not turning out to be the conservative behemoth to rival the purportedly "left-wing" Twitter. For starters, its launch was plagued with issues, as several who signed up for the app were shuffled onto a waiting list, and in some cases, it took weeks for them to actually use the website.

Furthermore, Donald Trump himself barely uses the website, which was clearly a major selling point to his followers who missed his Twitter account.

"We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced. This is unacceptable," Trump said before the site's launch. "I’m excited to soon begin sharing my thoughts on TRUTH Social and to fight back against Big Tech."

Those wanting to see Trump's tweet-like thoughts are instead receiving a steady stream of Donald Trump Jr.'s. According to Forbes, the site works well enough, but the issue is that it's largely a ghost town, populated mostly by Don Jr., The Babylon Bee and bots.

The apparent decline of Truth Social was music to the ears of its critics, who predicted that the site would fade into obscurity like other attempts at a "conservative-oriented Twitter" such as Parler and Gettr were labeled in the past.

While we're here laughing about truth social failing, please take the time to remember that some GOP lawmakers invested money in it, then you laugh harder.

— Covie (@covie_93) March 31, 2022

Devin Nunes left Congress to oversee Truth Social, and it’s a complete failure.

That makes me very happy.

— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) April 1, 2022

Devin Nunes is as good at running Truth Social as he was in suing a fake cow.

— Amy Lynn👣❤🇺🇦 (@AmyAThatcher) March 31, 2022

“Truth Social has been such a disappointment so far, Trump may have to rename it Don Jr.”

--Jimmy Kimmel

— 🇺🇦 jethro. 🗯 (@jethrostudio) March 31, 2022

Clearly, Truth Social needs some shaking up if it wants to live up to its ambitions. Perhaps "Trump" can go back to “truth-ing” Pig Poop Balls?