Former President Donald Trump’s new social media app Truth Social has drawn prominent Republicans and conservatives to its platform since going live on Sunday, despite users facing a number of technical glitches when trying to sign up.
Trump supporters in Congress, such as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, and Andy Biggs of Arizona, joined Truth Social after its soft launch on Sunday, along with popular conservatives such as right-wing political commentator Dinesh D’Souza and Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona governor Kari Lake.
“I’m on Truth Social! As the only Member of Congress to have had my personal Twitter account banned, I understand what millions of conservatives have gone through having their personal freedom of speech stolen from them by Big Tech for not parroting the approved messaging,” said Greene in her announcement that she was joining Trump’s platform.
The new platform was the most downloaded free app on Apple’s app store as of Tuesday morning, with nearly 400,000 people receiving notices they were placed on a waitlist upon trying to sign up.
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“Due to massive demand, we have placed you on our waitlist,” read the app’s message to a significant number of users who attempted to create an account.
Since its launch on Sunday, Truth Social has also been plagued by sign-up errors and delays, including many users being unable to create an account successfully or receiving confusing error messages when trying to do so.
“Something went wrong. Please try again,” was the error message many Truth Social app users saw when trying to create an account.
Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes said earlier this month that Truth Social was still undergoing beta testing and would be fully launched later this spring, facing delays partly due to infrastructure problems.
Trump, removed from almost every major social media platform, including Facebook and Twitter, following his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, announced he was creating Truth Social last October as an alternative to the Big Tech companies and to promote free speech.
Thus far, social media platforms popular with right-leaning users, such as GETTR and Parler, have had difficulties attracting a more mainstream user base as they try to expand, a major obstacle to conservatives hoping for an end to the liberal chokehold on social media.
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Nunes said Sunday that the company expects to make the app fully operational by the end of March, at least within the United States.
