Trump cannot return to Twitter, even if Elon Musk were to beg him to:

[DetlefK]

Trump is on Truth Social. Truth Social is his project and his posts and the traffic he generates via his posts are what keeps Truth Social alive.

If Trump were to go from Truth Social to Twitter, he would bring all this traffic from Truth Social to Twitter with him... and Truth Social would collapse because without Trump there is no point in reading Truth Social.




Trump going back to Twitter would kill Truth Social and make Trump like like a loser.

[brewens]

1. He might claim that Truth Social was successful by getting him back on Twitter and that was

what he wanted all along. Bullshit, but at least some excuse if he went to Twitter and shut TS down.

[usaf-vet]

37. Really?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017784798

[TheBlackAdder]

47. Musk might buy off Devin 🐮 Noonan to break Trump's exclusivity agreement and let Truth collapse.

.

But first, Devin might sell it to some patsy right around the time the agreement is nullified so he can reap the most from the sale and let the new buyer eat the loss.

.

[FarPoint]

2. Boycott Twitter NOW!

I strongly suggest we here at DU not even post a link.... I myself, never joined Twitter....

It is my hope everyone drops Twitter around the world.

[samnsara]

4. i like twitter.. i use it as a protest forum. i dont have a 'blue check'... hell i dont

..even know what it is.

[LymphocyteLover]

11. Twitter is uglier under Elon but is still a valuable platform for news and Dem organizing

IMO it's foolish to let cons take it over and let their lies go unchecked

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. +1. Although I have been curious, didn't see any function

For deleting account. And what about all the people that follow you?

So just stop going there?

[barbtries]

38. you have to deactivate your account

and supposedly after 30 days it's deleted. I can no longer like or retweet or comment on tweets. I wish i could tell you how i did it, but i had to google and don't want to pass on bad information, but the information is out there.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. Ok will do. So assume your name just went poof on your follower's list

I know advertisers are motivated by volume of usage. Even if people don't deactivate the company has got to see a drastic drop in volume? Despite any rise in new RW enrollment
.

[barbtries]

43. gotta be.

i'm over it whether or not trump returns though that was originally my bridge too far. i miss it a little and still go look at it when there's an interesting thread shared on DU. Can still read the threads and all.

i had blocked myself into a pretty good algorithm over there. oh well. no plans to return

[COL Mustard]

15. I signed up for Mastodon recently

Now I Toot (in public even)!

[anarch]

18. I still may join so I can post "NATIONALIZE TWITTER" constantly

or something like that. I'm not paying any $8.00 though, fuck that noise.

[Celerity]

32. No.

Are you on Facebook btw?

[samnsara]

3. exactly.. why would he want to promote a rival?

...elons trying to crash twitter on purpose so he can sell it at a huge loss and take a yuuuuge tax write off.

He has no use for twitter other than his personal plaything and hes already bored with it...

[Joinfortmill]

14. Destroying Twitter might be the game plan..maybe not at first, but now it seems to be.

[modrepub]

5. I Generally Agree

TFG is invested in making Truth Social the next Twitter. Having Musk beg him to come back feeds his ego and to some extent gives him hope that he might actually pull this off.

But, with a person as mercurial as TFG, he may actually jump a rat infested second-hand boat to board a former luxury vessel on fire, taking in water with over half its crew MIA.

[anarch]

19. it could conceivably wind up making Truth Social pretty much equal to Twitter

which I guess would be some kind of victory for TFG

[PJMcK]

6. Both platforms are failing

Truth Social lost its merger money and Trump’s investors will lose something like 90% of their investments.

Twitter is failing on all sides.

Both platforms will either disappear or devolve into something smaller and less influential. They’re both money-losers.

I still don’t understand why Musk got involved. He’s got enough trouble with his other companies.

Trump, of course, fails at EVERYTHING so TS’s failure was obvious from its launch.

[Hortensis]

29. This. Twitter can be saved, tho, and it's FAR more valuable to tRump

for communicating with his supporters (in and out of government and key positions) and spreading his propaganda than Truth Social.

[ret5hd]

7. Maybe he wants Elon to buy him out?!?!

[Submariner]

8. Let Elon beg then

I want to see him destroy his Tesla sales potential with his endorsement of maga party.

[NCjack]

16. If Musk paid me $10 a month, I would open a Twitter account.

Just for laffs when I can't sleep.

[Sienna86]

9. Certainly his attorneys recommend against this

Especially with appointment of Jack Smith.

[CousinIT]

10. He's already back. His account has been re-enabled along with his election fraud lies. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. He's not posting. It's a legal thing. He can't post to

Twitter because it devalues truth social

[Srkdqltr]

12. Twitter will survive, Truth Social will go on. Trump will do what he wants.

Twitter may run better with out so many employees. we don't know unless we work there.
Boycott or not, doesn't mean anything. We here are a drop in the ocean on Twitter.

[spanone]

13. I doubt he cares about truth social over his own ego...

Future quote: 'Only suckers and losers are on truth social'

[Maine Abu El Banat]

17. He can generate enough bullshit

For two Social media sites.

[justgamma]

20. I figured on Truth Social

everyone kissed his arse. On Twitter not so much. He wouldn't want to read anything bad about him.

[Danascot]

21. The Saudis

invested $17B in Twitter. I doubt they're very happy with Elmo destroying it. And they're not known for compassionate forgiveness.

[yardwork]

41. Maybe destroying it was the goal.

The Saudis don't like their citizens having access to facts and information. Putin can't be happy that Russians can read Tim Snyder and might learn something true about their country's invasion of Ukraine. The Iranian government isn't happy about Twitter. Neither is China.

I don't know. I think it's possible that the Saudis and others tricked another narcissistic fool - this time his name is Elon Musk - into acting as a useful tool.

[gulliver]

23. That's one of the reasons I'm glad Trump was reinstated

Trump said he isn't interested in Twitter but how long will that last? Musk's approach to Twitter (if Twitter survives) will be the death knell for Truth Social. And Trump's all out of material for Twitter, imo. Restoring his account will show it. Lying, nasty, crazy gasbag returns to Twitter. News at 11.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-twitter-poll-showing-narrow-majority-want-trump-reinstated-2022-11-20/

[Blues Heron]

24. why is it either or?

whats to stop him posting on both twitter and TS?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. Investors in TS and potential for future litigation. If he

Posts on Twitter he devalues TS investment

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. tRump is "generally" prevented from Twitter by his deal with his (un)TruthSocial investors

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/16/trump-twitter-return-truth-social/

Trump’s deal with Truth Social makes returning to Twitter complicated
Amanda Silberling @asilbwrites
May 16, 2022

According to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the Trump Media & Technology Group’s (TMTG) intention to go public via SPAC, Trump has some regulations to follow regarding the competition to his fledgling social network. Namely, when Trump posts a “truth” on Truth Social (yes, posts are called “truths”), he cannot repost it to any other social network for six hours.

These restrictions are likely intended to drive traffic to Truth Social — the app’s daily active user counts pale in comparison to Twitter’s, and getting first dibs on Trump posts could be reason enough to onboard new users.

The document also notes that “[Trump] may make a post from a personal account related to political messaging, political fundraising or get-out-the-vote efforts on any social media site at any time.” But he is “generally obligated” to use Truth Social.

In any case, it’s in the former president’s best financial interest to sway users over to his app. Per this S-4 filing, he will own 46.8% of company voting power and 73.3 million shares of TMTG once it merges with the blank check company Digital World Acquisition Corp.

[JohnnyRingo]

30. Truth Social is Trump plus a couple thousand journalists.

The site would indeed take a hit without him.
However, we know DJT doesn't mind closing up the doors and abandoning a business venture.

[BradBo]

31. For sure, but I wish he would. Musk would watch Tweeter go straight to the trash bin.

[oldsoftie]

33. I've been telling people the same thing. He makes MONEY off TS. Not twitter.

And for him its all about how much can he squeeze

[Pobeka]

34. He can be on both.

May as well kill two birds with one stone, as they say...

[wryter2000]

35. I'm pretty sure he could do both n/t

[Pete Ross Junior]

36. I have never been on Twitter. Can I still be part of the boycott?

But seriously folks, there is an error here that cuts across party lines.

That is the error of overestimating the political importance of Twitter. Musk does it. Trump did it (and maybe still does).

I vaguely remember something Charles Schumer said in 2017, sneering at the possibility of a "Twitter presidency".
That's the attitude we should recapture. Democracy does not and should not depend on Twitter.

Political success comes from organizing on the local level. I mean IRL not online.
And there the Democratic Party does very well, and has all along.

We never needed Twitter, though it was nice to have.

[Emrys]

45. Tell that to the Ukrainians.

Asking them to abandon Twitter would be like demanding they cede territory. They make excellent use of it. Many people on Twitter support them morally and physically because of it. Some people have had limbs replaced or their lives saved because of the efforts of people on Twitter, and some will sleep warmer this winter because of it.

[Pete Ross Junior]

46. If they get good use out of it, fine ...

... but Trump being there doesn't change things.

They can easily ignore him.

[McKim]

39. Please can we.....

Please can we stop feeding the drama king par excellence? What matters is are people going to vote for him and his sick ideas or not! As a dear friend from South America told me about how to live though a dictatorship: “Don’t spend all your time fighting a bully because one day the bully will go away and you will be left with nothing. Make sure you are building something for the future and you will be further ahead!” Thank you, Angel!!!!!!! Let’s build the ground game for the state legislatures and make inroads with the deluded workers.

[Javaman]

42. Sociopaths have no allegiance but only to them selves nt

[Poiuyt]

44. Trump might be under some contractual obligation to stay on Truth to satisfy investors.

[ThoughtCriminal]

48. Everything Trump touches...

dies.

I hope he slobbers all over it.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

49. I'd be amazed if those who financed Truth Social don't have TBL locked

into a contractual obligation not to post on Twitter or other competing social media sites.