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I 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?
I suppose Mike Lindell can help with that. He has recent relevant experience.
Earlier 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?
I 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?
also, there was atleast one nation state deeply invested in keeping trump believing he was popular on twitter.
I 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?
Their story at the moment is that the blog was a side piece. They're supposedly building an actual social network. I suppose Mike Lindell can help with that. He has recent relevant experience.
I guess he learned how tough it is to get people to read your blog...
Twenty year old blog technology with no social aspect (and fake upvote buttons) is hardly spectacular. It's not the game changer he promised.
They can, but they're just not interested
I'd guess same is true of fans of every politician
Just moreso with trump
The medium is the message
You can't reproduce the hatred and clown show asthetic with long blobs of text
You need tv
Anything inherently devoid of the possibility of meaningful conversation, thinking, thoughtfulness, etc.
I 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 h…
Perhaps his followers are less enthousiast than they appear on tv but surely installing an app has to be less of an effort than putting down a sign or joining a protest march, right?