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Post by Admin on May 17, 2021 5:02:21 GMT
Former President Donald Trump's "From the Desk of..." blog crashed on Saturday. Users were greeted with an error message, saying "something has gone wrong and this URL cannot be processed at this time."
The hourlong outage came after Trump posted a message about the ongoing election recount in Maricopa County, Arizona, according to the Gateway Pundit.
The message included unverified statements about election fraud in Arizona, saying "seals were broken on the boxes that hold the votes, ballots are missing, and worse."
Trump launched the blog in early May as a way to talk directly to his followers and the media. He was previously removed from both Twitter and Facebook, his most-used social media networks.
The Twitter ban for @realdonaldtrump was said to be permanent. Facebook has been wrestling with letting the former president back onto its platform. The company said earlier this month that it plans to revisit the decision in six months.
His blog had about 212,0000 engagements during its first week online, notably fewer than some of his most popular tweets.
Earlier this month, Peter Loge, an associate professor at George Washington University, told Insider's Thomas Colson that "Trump is just shouting into the void."
Loge added: "He isn't letting anyone shout back. Shouting at people is a less effective way to maintain celebrity status and keep selling new merchandise than finding ways to create the illusion of interaction is."
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2021 5:37:56 GMT
Interactions with posts on former President Trump’s new blog have dropped significantly since it was launched earlier this month amid an effort by the former commander in chief to maintain an online presence.
The former president was banned from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms following his unsupported claims of election fraud and what platforms deemed inflammatory remarks leading up to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
However, Trump established a blog dubbed "From the Desk of Donald Trump," which was officially launched May 4, as an alternative online presence.
On the blog’s first day, The Washington Post reported 159,000 total social media interactions. The following day, interactions dropped to 30,000 and have since not surpassed 15,000 per day, according to a Post review of data from online analytics firms.
Trump’s blog received about 4 million visits the week ending May 18 from desktop and mobile devices.
During the same period, the blog has been shared on Facebook an average of less than 2,000 times per day, a change from the tens of millions of comments, shares and reactions his Facebook page received each week last year, according to social media data firm BuzzSumo and Facebook-tracking tool CrowdTangle.
The Post reported that despite high interactions with Trump's blog content at the beginning of its launch, his posts have been shared less and less by users on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
But despite the decline in online interactions, Trump still maintains a grip on the Republican Party. Earlier this month, members of the House GOP voted to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) from her position as House Republican Conference chairwoman.
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2021 22:16:39 GMT
Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday poked fun at former President Donald Trump’s Memorial Day statement in which he used the recent surge in gas prices to take credit for the lower cost per gallon one year ago.
In a post on his blog, Trump urged Americans to “remember as you’re watching the meter tick, and your dollars pile up, how great of a job Donald Trump did as President.”
But Kimmel pointed out why that conclusion doesn’t hold up.
“[Trump] seems to have forgotten that the reason that gas prices were so low is because we had no place to go, no place to drive” at this time last year because of the effect of COVID-19 on the nation’s economy.
Approximately 60 percent more Americans than last year are expected to travel more than 50 miles from home this holiday weekend, according to AAA. As of Thursday, the national average for a gallon of gas was $3.04, the highest since 2014. A year ago it was under $2.
Trump claimed that this equates to having been “energy independent.”
And so the ex-POTUS, according to Kimmel, could be heard saying things like,“‘When I was president, we spent money on porn stars, not gasoline!’”
As for the current state of things, Trump concluded simply: “Shame, shame, shame. Other than that, have a great Memorial Day Weekend!”
“[Trump] is just a crazy old man shouting at pigeons now,” said Kimmel.
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Post by Admin on May 29, 2021 21:20:44 GMT
Former President Donald J. Trump has been ousted from Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks for about four months now, so last week he launched a personalized feed on his website in an attempt to speak to the masses. It turns out Trump’s silly little blog (note: that’s not the official name) hasn’t been attracting much internet traffic at all. The Desk of Donald J. Trump has seen just over 212,000 “engagements” since its launch last week, according to data compiled by NBC News and BuzzSumo, a social media analytics company. BuzzSumo defines engagements as backlinks and social interactions such as likes, shares, and comments across other social media channels. Hundreds of thousands of engagements are still more than, say, my personal Twitter account receives, but it’s small fries in comparison to Trump’s social media presence of just a few months ago. That’s good news for those of us concerned about the former president’s penchant for spreading lies and general misinformation. NOTHING MUCH TO SEE HERE — Trump has teased around the idea of creating his own news feed many times over the years. After all that hype, his new blog-social-media-hybrid is something of a letdown. The Desk of Donald J. Trump is set up to look like a Twitter feed, but there’s no way to actually interact with any of the content. You can’t sign up for an account to follow along; you can click the little heart icon but the posts don’t rack up likes. In short, Trump hasn’t made it very easy to spread his messages across the internet. No wonder his engagement numbers are so low. Evidence, indeed, that de-platforming works. THE SOCIAL MEDIA MEGAPHONE — Trump’s internet power was very much tied to his social media presence. For now, at least, the feedback loop to which Trump became so addicted continues to be muzzled by the largest social media companies. Twitter has gone so far as to ban The Desk of Donald J. Trump’s account on the site. These de-platforming strategies have successfully kept Trump’s noise to a minimum since early January. Trump’s new site is even more limited in its functionality than similar alt-social platforms, like MyPillow guy Mike Lindell’s “Frank.” Banned alt-right figureheads are flocking to independent ventures to spread their vitriol and lies — and they’re finding that it’s more difficult than they thought to do that without the help of Twitter and Facebook. We’re thankful for how enjoyable social media has become again in the wake of Trump’s bans — but we’re also aware that he could choose to join another network like Parler or Frank at any time. But, frankly, they’re welcome to him. If we never see him on the platforms we use again it’ll be too soon.
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Post by Admin on Jun 2, 2021 20:11:24 GMT
Donald Trump’s blog site, designed to give the disgraced former U.S. president an online outlet after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and other services, has been permanently shuttered about a month after it debuted.
The blog, called “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” has been removed from his personal site (donaldjtrump.com) along with all posts. A senior aide to Trump, Jason Miller, told CNBC that the blog section will not be returning and that it was “just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on.”
In a May 5 post on the blog, Trump lashed out Facebook (as well as Twitter and Google) after Facebook’s independent Oversight Board upheld the social media giant’s suspension of Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts over his role in inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
“What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country,” Trump wrote in the now-deleted post. “Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before.” Trump also issued a vague threat that “corrupt social media companies must pay a political price” and he alleged that they somehow worked to “destroy and decimate” the American electoral process.
In its ruling last month, Facebook’s Oversight Board faulted Facebook for imposing “the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension” on Trump. The board ordered Facebook to review Trump’s suspension “to determine and justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform” within six months.
Facebook froze Trump’s accounts on Jan. 7 through at least President Biden’s inauguration, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg citing the potential for ongoing violence for the decision. “We believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Zuckerberg said at the time. Twitter banned Trump permanently on Jan. 8, and other internet companies have taken similar actions to “deplatform” him.
As noted by the Overnight Board, on Jan. 6, Facebook removed a video posted by Trump telling the Capitol mob to go home — while also reiterating baseless election-fraud claims and telling the rioters “we love you, you’re very special.” Later that day, Facebook deleted a Trump post in which he wrote, “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love in peace. Remember this day forever!” Facebook removed both posts under its policy on Dangerous Individuals and Organizations.
Two weeks later, Facebook announced that it was referring the decision about whether Trump’s accounts would be reinstated to the Oversight Board, the 20-member organization composed of lawyers, academics, policy analysts, journalists and industry experts.
Critics have long called on Facebook to ban Trump to stop the spread of misinformation, including Trump’s repeated false assertion that the 2020 election was somehow rigged against him. Conservatives have blasted moves to deplatform Trump as infringing his political speech.
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