Former President Donald Trump’s social media network Truth Social was the most downloaded free iPhone app in the App Store on Tuesday.
Former President Donald Trump’s social media network Truth Social was the most downloaded free iPhone app in the App Store on Tuesday, with Twitter close behind at No. 2 a day after the company’s board agreed to be acquired by Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk for $44 billion.On Monday, before the deal was announced, Truth Social was ranked 52nd and Twitter was in 39th place on the download chart.
Downloads of Truth Social rose to 75,000 for the week of April 18 to 25, up 150% from the week before, according to data from Sensor Tower, a company that monitors mobile apps metrics and has tracked the launch of Trump’s social media site. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. , the special purpose acquisition company that plans to merge with Truth Social, were up 3% to $36.81 Tuesday afternoon afterThe spike in Truth Social app installations comes after reports that downloads of the social media platform had fallen in recent weeks following a messy launch of the site.
The Truth Social app has been downloaded roughly 1.4 million times to date since its launch in February, according to Sensor Tower.194 million. That’s how many times Twitter’s mobile app was downloaded in 2021, down 3% from 2020, according to Sensor Tower. The company has the fewest number of users of any of the major social media sites.
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