Truth is the most downloaded app on the Apple App Store in the United States. The social media created by former US president Donald Trump began to climb the charts in the days following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.
It was Tesla’s CEO himself who gave evidence of the application’s performance publishing the ranking in a tweet of the most downloaded for iPhone. And then he adds: “Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter has censored free speech.” And again: “It should be called Trumpet”, trumpet in Italian, a play on words that recalls the name of the former tenant of the White House.
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According to Musk’s post, the second most downloaded app in the US is Twitter, there since the day the entrepreneur bought it for 44 billion dollars.
The day before the agreement between Musk and the manager of the social, Truth social was the 52nd most downloaded app on the App Store. Twitter the 39th.
As for downloads, the Sensor Towerauthoritative observatory on app download, Truth was downloaded 75,000 times between 18 and 25 Aprilan increase of 150% over the previous week.
The new Twitter is good for Truth
But in the same period, the prices of the Digital World Acquisition also rose, the investment vehicle that will allow the raising of capital useful for the listing of Truth through a SPAC, already announced by Trump himself.
It is difficult at the moment to establish a cause and effect relationship, but the clues seem to tell that the Twitter operation is also doing well in Truth, which at the moment has registered 1.4 million downloads in the US alone, the only country in which it is currently been launched. Probably the download record is due to the new publicity that the social network had during the climb of Musk, often cited as an alternative to Twitter along with Mastodon.
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After a strong launch on February 21, the app experienced a drop in new downloads of up to 97% in the following week. Twitter, on the other hand, in 2021 was downloaded 194 million times, down 3% compared to 2020, according to Sensor Tower, ranking among the worst social networks for the number of new downloads in the world.
Trump will not return to Twitter. Musk hopes so
Truth began to become an idea when social networks banned Donald Trump, believed guilty of inciting the mob that stormed the United States Congress on January 6, 2021.
Since then, the former US president has no longer had an official voice on social media. He started a blog, but it has had mixed fortunes. Truth was born with a thousand difficulties, some of a technical nature. But now it seems to enjoy new life blood.
Trump said he will not return to Twitter even when it officially passes into Musk’s hands and that Truth will be the only tool for sharing his ideas that he will use. But Elon Musk wants a change of pace for Twitter.
And bringing Trump back to the platform remains an entrepreneur’s goal for many. Certainly a perfect business card for the new Twitter course, which wants to contain every content. To use his words, the prince of free speech.