TRUTH Social is More Successful Than They Want You To Think
I know that there are some people that are out there who have managed to succeed in setting up their TRUTH Social accounts. However, if you're like me, you tried to create an account, but are currently in limbo. Additionally, all of the news that seems to be coming out about TRUTH Social so far is indicating that they are failing miserably in their roll out and that is putting a bit of a damper on the excitement surrounding the launch of this platform.
However, in a recent article from JustTheNews.com, John Solomon highlights the astounding differences between the media reporting about TRUTH Social and the actual results people are having on the platform. Dan Bongino, in particular, was highlighted in this article. Apparently, while his TRUTH Social account has about one tenth of the followers as his Twitter account, the engagement he receives on TRUTH Social is triple that which he receives on Twitter... Clearly, this proves that conservative arguments about shadow banning and downranking of content was definitely not without merit. You don't just get 3 times the engagement with one tenth the followership on accident. This is clear and malicious undermining of conservative content producers on liberal-owned platforms.
This also shows the extent to which media outlets are attempting to spread false news about the success of the TRUTH Social launch. Clearly, these outlets are attempting to paint TRUTH as a failure to reduce interest in the platform as an alternative for free speech. I've got a snippet of this article for you all below. You can click the link at the bottom to read the full article:
Radio host and TV commentator Dan Bongino built an army-sized following over the years on Twitter, with 2.4 million fans. In a few short weeks, he's attracted about a tenth of the same following on President Trump's nascent Truth Social platform.
But with millions fewer users and hundreds of thousands fewer followers, Bongino's Truth Social account — like those of scores of other conservative stars — is creating substantially more engagement on posts than his long-time audience on Twitter.
Thursday afforded the latest example. Bongino sent the same message out on both platforms to alert audience to his latest video podcast.
"Panic Breaks Out Over The Ukraine Bio-Labs Story," Bongino wrote on both platforms.
His giant Twitter audience created 554 likes and 185 retweets as of 7 p.m. EDT on Thursday. In contrast, his smaller sized audience on Truth Social tripled the engagement with 1,550 likes and 488 "re-truths."
"The traffic to the site and to the show is off the chart," Bongino told Just the News in an interview Thursday about Truth Social. "The engagement is extraordinary right now."
He also slammed mainstream media reports suggesting Truth Social was off to a slow start, saying such reports are disproven by engagement charts of its top users and belong in the same discredited trash heap of journalism as Russia collusion stories.
"A handful of liberal reporters get an account on Truth, can't attract any followers because no one wants to hear them, and then they report it isn't working," he said. "It's ridiculous journalism."
A survey of major figures who have both Truth Social and Twitter accounts found numerous examples of the Trump platform outperforming the engagement of the grand old daddy of 140-character tweets.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/donald-trumps-truth-social-propels-conservatives-reach-past-twitter-few-short
