Trump realizing what the rest of the blogosphere figured out a decade ago. The audience has been surrendered to Twitter and FB, and they aren't coming back.
Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
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Re: Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
#22I don’t understand this. He’s got a massive audience. How hard is it to build a Twitter clone where he can blast his messages to all his followers?
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Re: Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
#23I don’t understand this. He’s got a massive audience. How hard is it to build a Twitter clone where he can blast his messages to all his followers?
Building it is easy. Getting people to subscribe to it (creating an account, downloading an app, etc) is really, really, really hard. So is getting them to check it often enough to not forget about it.
Social networks are natural monopolies. You go where your friends already are. Once there, you tend to stay there, rather than going through the whole process again on some other site.
In this case he appears to have half-assed it. It's not impossible that his following was devoted enough to jump through those hoops. He'd have needed a catchy app and a constant stream of content to make it engaging. Maybe a whole Twitter clone ecosystem might have done it, but that comes with a ton of headaches. (Even the free-est speech platform doesn't like being overrun with spammers, for example.)
Instead, he seems to have counted on his notoriety to do all of the work, and that was surely not going to cut it.
Re: Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
#24No shit your base isn't going to read long-form content.
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#25I don’t understand this. He’s got a massive audience. How hard is it to build a Twitter clone where he can blast his messages to all his followers?
His followers may not have been the goal of Tweeting. They can be reached out to directly via email.
Twitter allowed him to reach reporters who read, spread, and amplified whatever he tweeted.
Re: Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
#26I absolutely detest Trump and fully supported his removal from any and all platforms run by private companies much earlier than it happened, HOWEVER this is yet another indicator that our world runs through monopolies. They're holding back everything, including shareholders. Break. Them. Up.
>HOWEVER this is yet another indicator that our world runs through monopolies. It indicates nothing of the sort. His site was on the public web, freely accessible to anyone with a browser. It was being shared on social media. There were no "monopolies" holding him back, rather, he's no longer politically relevant, so his garbage content isn't worth covering, and his base has all but lost interest in him.
You’re telling me that if his posts had been on his Twitter, they would received the same amount of attention?
Re: Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
>HOWEVER this is yet another indicator that our world runs through monopolies. It indicates nothing of the sort. His site was on the public web, freely accessible to anyone with a browser. It was being shared on social media. There were no "monopolies" holding him back, rather, he's no longer politically relevant, so his garbage content isn't worth covering, and his base has all but lost interest in him.
You’re telling me that if his posts had been on his Twitter, they would received the same amount of attention?
Possibly a bit more, but not much more. Certainly not the kind of attention they did prior.
Being President was the reason for his popularity, not being on Twitter. He was tweeting from a personal account that he had prior to running, which no one cared about until he got into office and decided to make it his primary means of communication with the public. His content on Twitter was no better than on his blog, but when your shitposting can start a riot or maybe a war, people have to care.
Yes, I do believe that, contrary to the narrative, Donald Trump no longer being President has more of an effect on his messaging power than his site not being hosted on one of the social media silos.
Re: Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
#28Does he know you can hide the number of likes now?
Tangentially:
Trump's blog was styled like Twitter, complete with a "like" icon on each post. The button was broken; clicking it didn't do anything.
Re: Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
#29Tiny hands stop writing for tiny readership
Re: Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re telling me that if his posts had been on his Twitter, they would received the same amount of attention?
Possibly a bit more, but not much more. Certainly not the kind of attention they did prior. Being President was the reason for his popularity, not being on Twitter. He was tweeting from a personal account that he had prior to running, which no one cared about until he got into office and decided to make it his primary means of communication with the public. His content on Twitter was no better than on his blog, but w…
You obviously have TDS:
- Trump is still immensely popular, and in fact is the Republican party
- Pelosi failing to provide additional Capitol security on Jan. 6 caused the riot, not the other way around
- what you believe doesn't match reality.