Donald Trump’s website Truth Social has suffered a major outage, leaving users unable to access individual profiles.
If you try to access a profile on the site, such as President Trump’s personal handle @realDonaldTrump, you’ll see a message saying, “We’ve encountered a problem. We apologize for the interruption. If the issue persists, please contact our support team.” An error message was displayed. You can also try clearing your cookies and browser data (this will log you out).
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Truth Social, launched in February 2022, has become one of President Trump’s favorite ways to communicate with the public and supporters. In this respect, it played a role similar to that played by Twitter (now X) until President Trump was banned from the platform in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by hundreds of his supporters.
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Reports of users unable to access Truth Social began around 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday and continued as of 3 a.m. ET Wednesday, according to Downdetector, a website that monitors online outages.
Downdetector received the highest number of outage reports at 4:15 PM ET on Tuesday, with 71 logged, but that had dropped to 12 by 2:55 AM ET this morning.
newsweek contacted Truth Social via email at 4:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday. This article will be updated if you decide to comment.
According to , Truth Social briefly went down on March 8, coinciding with President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to Congress. mirror.
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The Truth Social’s outage sparked ridicule on rival social media website X.
Sarah Larchmont, an X user with 21,600 followers, shared a screenshot of Truth Social’s error message and wrote, “Truth Social has been down for hours. Letitia James grabbed it. “Maybe,” he added jokingly.
Trump was ordered to pay $355 million, plus interest, after a court concluded that Trump engaged in civil fraud in a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Mr. Trump has so far failed to get his money flowing, and Mr. James could try to seize some of his assets.
“Truth Social is still down,” said another X user, referring to President Trump’s habit of posting in capital letters. [laughing emoji] When we reopen, there will be a ton of angry tweets in all caps. ”
A third user suggested, without providing any evidence, that Truth Social’s outage could be the result of an attack by hackers.
They wrote: “It is entirely possible that Truth Social was brought down by hackers.
“If you have a Truth Social account, can you log in now? If you can’t log in, someone took the entire site down.”
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