Donald Trump’s Truth Social App Said to Hit Web Browsers by End of May

Former US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social app will launch on an internet browser on the finish of May, Chief Executive Devin Nunes mentioned on Monday.

In a publish on the platform, Nunes additionally mentioned Truth Social has not but been authorised for launch within the Google Play retailer for Android gadgets.

“End of May we will launch PWA (Web Browser) this will allow access from any device,” Nunes wrote. “After that we are going to launch an Android App… pending approval from Google!”

Availability within the Google Play and Apple App shops is essential to the app’s capability to scale up.

Truth Social’s mother or father firm, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), launched with the mission of standing as much as Big Tech, after Trump was kicked off Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for allegedly inciting or glorifying violence through the January 6 US Capitol riots.

Yet the social media enterprise is proscribed by its reliance on Alphabet-owned Google and Apple, which function app shops that dominate the smartphone market.

Truth Social launched within the Apple App retailer on February 21 and was for a time essentially the most downloaded free app there. It was quantity two on that listing on Monday.

Trump started posting on the location late Thursday, for the primary time since he posted one “truth” — as posts are known as — on February 14.

TMTG is planning to go public via a merger with blank-check agency Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC). The deal is beneath scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission and is probably going months away from being finalized.

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