Former President Donald Trump's social media app has so far failed to become a major competitor to established social networks, The Daily Beast reported Monday.
The Beast's article, which was published at 4:46 a.m., said Trump's Truth Social was the 28th most popular social networking app on the Apple App Store, but at 11:51 a.m., it was sitting in 36th place.
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