Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social topped the Apple App Store downloads list days after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.
The Truth Social app rose to No. 1 on the app charts on Tuesday, coming amid speculation that Musk’s purchase of Twitter for $44 billion would imperil the Trump-backed platform. Musk himself posted about the sudden shift in the app’s download rates.
“Truth Social is currently beating Twitter & TikTok on the Apple Store,” he wrote, which included a screenshot of a chart from AppFigures.com.
“Before April 23, Truth Social had not previously ranked since March 12,” Stephanie Chan,  an analyst with Sensor Tower, told TheWrap. “This was also the first time Truth Social has ranked at No. 1 on the overall U.S. App Store since Feb. 24 shortly after its launch.”
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