4 ms·

Does it really have that much more of an influence than if Trump had just started a WordPress blog?

• Waterluvian 3y ago
  Absolutely. The value is the engagement. Think of it as a comments section on steroids. Or maybe a “discussion room.”
  • Hamuko 3y ago
    WordPress blogs also have comments sections. To me, the value of having a social media presence would be to boost your message beyond its core audience. However, Truth Social seems like it has a very selective group of people that would even sign up, so there's less of a chance of your posts being seen by someone who wasn't already interested in them. I'd imagine it'd be a lot cheaper to host too, and could probably still get around the same amount spent on advertising.
    • Waterluvian 3y ago
      The goal isn’t to use it to spread a message. It’s where the message is formed and the ideology is incubated. What was the point of a Klan rally?
    • solardev 3y ago
      I think the point was that conservatives wanted to believe they had a legitimate grip on reality even though the mainstream social networks kept banning them. Having their own echo chamber safe space let them pretend they were on equal footing with the rest of the world. It's a veneer of legitimacy for an ideology that relies not on factualness but bravado...
  • rchaud 3y ago
    Engagement only matters if an algorithm uses it to decide whether to display the tweet on non-follower feeds. On Twitter this wouod happen when politicos starting posting engagement-bait to get people on the other side to quote the tweet in order to dunk on it. Politicos didn't care because their posts were getting engagement, and spreading across the network. With Trump, there's no equivalent of that because it began life as politics platform and its audience reflects that; you'll see Trump messages whether you want to or not. That was not the case for Twitter.
  • frumper 3y ago
    Just looking at his posts on TS today, it ranges from 200 to 1,000 comments. The comments are almost entirely memes that could easily be bots, many are not even friendly to Trump. These numbers sound neither impressive, nor worth losing any money over.
• deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
• dbbk 3y ago
  Fun fact, he already has one. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news