Depressing: Truth Social Is The Most Popular Twitter Alternative After Threads
Image Credit: Dave Granlund, discovered via The Saratogian
The defederated Mastodon variant Truth Social is still fairly active, despite living in Twitter’s shadow, as well as Threads.
While the world’s top social apps have weekly active user counts starting in the half-billion range years into their lifecycles, Threads attracting nearly 100 million WAU during this early period is unprecedented. That means it already had about a fifth of the weekly active user base of Twitter worldwide and was 86 times the WAU of the largest Twitter rival in the United States by that measure, Truth Social, with 1 million WAU as of last week. (Data.ai Blog)
If Truth Social activated ActivityPub upon their defederated instance, they would sadly sit at the top of the Fediverse (at least until Threads enters the arena).
Despite its massive size, Truth Social has yet to turn a profit as the site has only generated approximately one million dollars in revenue, far short of what their server bill by RightForge was last year (which was over one & a half million dollars in 2022).
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