Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Meta Plans to Launch a Text-Based Social Platform to Rival Twitter (Report)
thewrap.comReuters reported Friday.“We’re exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates,” a Meta spokesperson told the news outlet. “We believe there’s an opportunity for a separate space where creators and public figures can share timely updates about their interests.”Meta’s app will be based on a similar framework to the one that Mastodon operates on, the report said.
Mastodon, founded in 2016, is an open-source project that many Twitter users fled to after Musk bought Twitter in October 2022.
Mastodon usage surged more than 2,608% in just days, but founder Eugen Rochko declined Silicon Valley funding that would have helped it expand further, opting to keep it a nonprofit.Musk’s erratic leadership of Twitter, including firing about 75% of the staff, restoring previously banned accounts like former President Donald Trump’s and bungling the “blue check” rollout of paid account verification led to an exodus of users and advertisers in the first months of his tenure.
While advertising has stabilized, the service lately has seen more technological glitches, including major outages. The billionaire, who is also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has said he will step down as soon as he finds a replacement.Multiple other Twitter rivals also already exist, from Post to Trump’s Truth Social to the right-leaning Parler and Gab.
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