I suspect the underlying application (Mastodon) is just unable to deal with that many users (the screenshot shows a waitlist of 1.4M users, in addition to all those that have already been invited), which would explain why they're taking ages to fix it because there's no real "fix" other than building such a platform from scratch which would take ages.
maybe. but i’d be more inclined to believe that a larger factor was that low number of users forced them to realize it wasn’t going to be anything other than another ghost town. i mean, he’s a known egomaniac and he had like what, 90 million followers on twitter? to go from those numbers to what in his mind would be a comparatively silly low number of users on the entire platform was almost certainly a rude awakening.
it is likely that many things piled up together made them realize, tho.
To add to that, he is also not someone with any experience starting from zero. With the exception of his reality tv persona that he parlayed into politics, most every business he has ever tried to build from scratch has failed.
There's probably a lot of excitement to slam Truth.social, but if you look at what they're trying to achieve it's really difficult, and I'm not sure it's a failure yet.
Building a social media site is really really difficult, Google failed at it, Facebook looks like it's failing to maintain its position, and there's a long history of sites that fell by the wayside (Digg, Myspace, Freindster etc.), so on that side of things these new right wing sites are tackling a really difficult business problem. So this is a difficult business for people who should be good at it. Then you have to consider it's being run by Devin Nunes - a farmer with no background in technology and whose understanding of social media is so deep that his best known achievement is suing a parody account that claimed to be one of his cows (resulting in the cow going viral).
But is it really failing? If Clubhouse had a 1.5 million person waiting list you'd be hearing every VC in silicon Valley screaming about how it's the next big thing and throwing around billion dollar valuations. Having a large waiting list isn't a bad thing, even if it's unintentional. There's absolutely a viable path forward for it as long as it eventually gains some traction. That won't happen until Trump is active on it and that won't happen unless people can freely access it. Trump isn't going to tweet to 5 followers.
I would not take the waiting list at face value. The onboarding flow is at such a distinctive rate that you can test it yourself by joining it with different accounts and ask yourself if the rate can be this steady over a 24 hour period…
> Facebook looks like it's failing to maintain its position
Facebook (the blue app) has 2.9 billion monthly active users. That's about a third of the human race. And it keeps growing quarter over quarter. So I'm not really sure what metric you're pulling from here.
If I may: Facebook's user numbers have actually started falling [0], so your third sentence is incorrect. Your first two sentences make a decent point, though.
Clubhouse launched with only an iOS app in 2020 with a waitlist and globally had 1.5M sign up to it in its first year of launch. Compare that to Truth Social launched in February 2022, also only having an iOS app and waitlist, but is geo-restricted only to the US and also has 1.5M+ sign up on the waitlist in less than a year and immediately is reported as a 'disaster'.
Despite what the media is reporting, I think it is quite early to classify a 'launch day disaster' as indicative as the entire product being a total failure.
Though it may be wishful thinking in the part of the author, the goal of this is generating clicks, let's be frank. [Some] People will click/engage this on both sides due to the subject nature.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 34.8 ms ] threadit is likely that many things piled up together made them realize, tho.
Building a social media site is really really difficult, Google failed at it, Facebook looks like it's failing to maintain its position, and there's a long history of sites that fell by the wayside (Digg, Myspace, Freindster etc.), so on that side of things these new right wing sites are tackling a really difficult business problem. So this is a difficult business for people who should be good at it. Then you have to consider it's being run by Devin Nunes - a farmer with no background in technology and whose understanding of social media is so deep that his best known achievement is suing a parody account that claimed to be one of his cows (resulting in the cow going viral).
But is it really failing? If Clubhouse had a 1.5 million person waiting list you'd be hearing every VC in silicon Valley screaming about how it's the next big thing and throwing around billion dollar valuations. Having a large waiting list isn't a bad thing, even if it's unintentional. There's absolutely a viable path forward for it as long as it eventually gains some traction. That won't happen until Trump is active on it and that won't happen unless people can freely access it. Trump isn't going to tweet to 5 followers.
Facebook (the blue app) has 2.9 billion monthly active users. That's about a third of the human race. And it keeps growing quarter over quarter. So I'm not really sure what metric you're pulling from here.
[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60238565
Despite what the media is reporting, I think it is quite early to classify a 'launch day disaster' as indicative as the entire product being a total failure.