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Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
- empressplay 5y agoI guess he learned how tough it is to get people to read your blog...
- ksaj 5y agoThis is a clear sign. If you get thousands of responses on Twitter, and no interest whatsoever on your personal platform, your only value to those who used to engage is the spectacle you created in that other environment. Nobody cared about what Trump was saying - they only cared about the excitement in the responses. Twenty year old blog technology with no social aspect (and fake upvote buttons) is hardly spectacular. It's not the game changer he promised.
- the_only_law 5y agoI kept hearing about this blog he started, but had absolutely no idea where it lived. I think I once tried to Google it, but the results were all news articles about the blog and I didn’t care to try to look any further.
- povik 5y agoDoes anyone have a link perhaps to an archived mirror?
- detaro 5y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20210531172557/https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210531172557/https://www.donal...
- elliekelly 5y agoBizarrely, the "blogs" are still preserved on the current website but have been transformed into press releases(?) under the News section[1] with each post titled "Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America". [1]https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news
- krapp 5y agoThat's a shame.
- jiofih 5y agoMaybe his readership was impaired by a paywall
- mrtweetyhack 5y agoTrump supporters can't read. HAHA
- CurtHagenlocher 5y agoSo basically he was deplatformed yet again by Big Tech -- this time by Google when they killed Reader in 2013?
- paxys 5y agoNo shit your base isn't going to read long-form content.
- DrBenCarson 5y agoI 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.
- krapp 5y ago>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.
- DrBenCarson 5y agoYou’re telling me that if his posts had been on his Twitter, they would received the same amount of attention?
- krapp 5y agoPossibly 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.
- redis_mlc 5y agoYou 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.
- otterley 5y agoAnd nothing of value was lost.
- okareaman 5y agoHe probably wouldn't be able to blog from prison anyway
- tolbish 5y agoDoes he know you can hide the number of likes now?
- duskwuff 5y agoTangentially: 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. https://twitter.com/errorsgalore/status/1389741353144365056 https://twitter.com/errorsgalore/status/1389741353144365056
- tinus_hn 5y agoI 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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- jfengel 5y agoBuilding 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.
- tinus_hn 5y agoBut if he just creates a platform where he can post his short screeds and people can view, subscribe and interact, surely his followers would want to install an app for that? You don’t even need accounts if all you want is read and get notifications. 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?
- youeseh 5y agoHis 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.
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- rchaud 5y agoTrump 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.
- mrcartmenez 5y agoTiny hands stop writing for tiny readership
- readonthegoapp 5y agoIs it too snarky to suggest his fans don't read? 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 Twitter Anything inherently devoid of the possibility of meaningful conversation, thinking, thoughtfulness, etc.