# What about Trump's new social network? I hear crickets **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 23, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024 "2022-02-23T22:19:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/41 "2022-02-24T15:48:28Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Yeah, I can see why anybody looking at [fake app] that would assume it was an actual Grifty McGriftface operation… Next twist: the fake “MAGA Hub” app works so much better than the real one that people just stay with that, and never do join Trump’s. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/42 "2022-02-24T17:03:40Z")
But he doesn’t get a cut of any of that money. So, queue infantile whining and conspiracy theories about how it’s a plot cooked up by {Liberals/Jeff Bezos/Immigrants/Fake News} pretty soon now ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/43 "2022-02-24T17:11:41Z")
Trump will threaten to sue but nobody will take the case and Trump will continue to scream at clouds. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/44 "2022-02-24T17:44:39Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Next twist: the fake “MAGA Hub” app works so much better than the real one that people just stay with that, and never do join Trump’s. Maybe Devin and his cow should just buy the fake site and run the operation from there. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/45 "2022-02-24T18:02:11Z")
You’re doing way better than I am. I’ve been trying, on and off, for 3 days and they must’ve sent the email verification link over a dozen times. The average time between signing up and receiving the “we just sent you a link, click it to verify your email” email, has been about 8 hours so far. At one point yesterday, I got as got as far as “we’ve verified your email, please select a username and password” before getting the intractable “OOPS” message. But I haven’t been able to get that far again. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/46 "2022-02-24T18:30:06Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Next twist: the fake “MAGA Hub” app works so much better than the real one that people just stay with that, and never do join Trump’s. Season Two: Trump buys them out, then immediately breaks the site by trying to “improve” it. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/47 "2022-02-24T19:08:10Z")
- Golf clap\* ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/48 "2022-02-24T19:25:57Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Season Two: Trump buys them out, then immediately breaks the site by trying to “improve” it. Season 2, Ep 4 (spoilers!) Trump accidentally hires someone competent, and the site looks like it’s going to work. Then Trump fires him because the guy was **too** good, and was getting too much media attention. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/49 "2022-02-24T19:43:09Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Apparently the fake PravdaSocial site works better than the real one. I find it very amusing that some bored geek is doing better work out of his mom’s basement than the people Trump hired to build his platform. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/50 "2022-02-24T20:49:45Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > I find it very amusing that some bored geek is doing better work out of his mom’s basement than the people Trump hired to build his platform. What I wonder is, isn’t the source code for Twitter available anywhere? That’s what Trump really wants, so why not just hire some geek to copy the code, add in some gold leafing, and launch it as his own site? As a friend once said, you don’t reinvent the wheel, you just take it from Grog’s village to Ug’s village and sell it to them. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/51 "2022-02-24T23:05:01Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > You’re doing way better than I am. I’ve been trying, on and off, for 3 days and they must’ve sent the email verification link over a dozen times. Just to be clear, that was not me! I was quoting from a journo. I wouldn’t go near it. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/52 "2022-02-24T23:59:29Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > You’re doing way better than I am. I’ve been trying, on and off, for 3 days and they must’ve sent the email verification link over a dozen times. Just guessing… but have you donated yet? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/53 "2022-02-25T02:27:10Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > What I wonder is, isn’t the source code for Twitter available anywhere? That’s what Trump really wants, so why not just hire some geek to copy the code, add in some gold leafing, and launch it as his own site? > > As a friend once said, you don’t reinvent the wheel, you just take it from Grog’s village to Ug’s village and sell it to them. Last time I checked, “Truth Social” is based on the open-source Twitter alternative Mastodon, so this is more or less literally what they did. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/54 "2022-02-25T02:28:52Z")
> [@Mr.E](#): > > Last time I checked, “Truth Social” is based on the open-source Twitter alternative Mastodon, so this is more or less literally what they did. And they still screwed it up? Yeah, I guess that’s on-brand. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/55 "2022-02-25T02:30:16Z")
These clowns could not organize a piss up in a brewery. They could not figure out how to have a chicken raffle at a poultry farm. They couldn’t puzzle how to get a casino to make a profit. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/56 "2022-02-25T02:52:33Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > They couldn’t puzzle how to get a casino to make a profit. I see what you did there. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/57 "2022-02-25T02:54:25Z")
'Round here we say, “Couldn’t get laid in a whorehouse with a fistfull of hundreds”. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/58 "2022-02-25T02:56:56Z")
Keep 'em coming! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/59 "2022-02-25T02:58:54Z")
Couldn’t spell “cat” if you spotted them the “c” and the “t”. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/60 "2022-02-25T03:00:50Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > They couldn’t puzzle how to get a casino to make a profit. Not even with the help of Russian mob money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024.md?page=4)