Former President Donald Trump's new social media app, Reality, launched on Monday, however individuals have to attend in line to entry the platform.

Trump railed in opposition to social media corporations for being biased in opposition to Republicans and having been kicked off a number of social media platforms, the previous president launched his personal. Marketed as a platform freed from censorship, Trump additionally plans to make use of the platform as a way of connecting with voters forward of the 2022 midterms and a possible presidential run in 2024.

After downloading the appliance from the Apple retailer, customers are dropped at a web page the place they'll both sign up or create a brand new account. These creating a brand new account are requested to place of their start date, as customers have to be a minimum of 18 years outdated to entry the platform.

Earlier than accessing the platform, customers additionally enter their electronic mail tackle after which validate it with a verification electronic mail. After verifying their electronic mail, customers are requested to create a username and password.

Not like many social media functions, the place an individual can entry content material and options instantly after creating an account, the Reality social platform requires a bit extra endurance. As soon as efficiently creating an account, customers are put right into a "waitlist" that might be greater than a hundred-thousand individuals lengthy.

"Resulting from large demand, we've got positioned you on our waitlist," the app tells individuals. "We love you, and you are not simply one other quantity to us. However your waitlist quantity is beneath."

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Former President Donald Trump's Reality Social utility launched on Monday and customers are being put in a thousand-person waitlist earlier than having the ability to entry content material. Trump prepares to talk throughout the Conservative Political Motion Convention CPAC held on the Hilton Anatole on July 11 in Dallas. Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures

At about 7:40 a.m. on Monday morning, the wait record had reached 172,668. Some customers have reported getting a sequence of error messages as they tried to create accounts and receiving the verification electronic mail may take quarter-hour or extra.

As of Monday, Trump's social media utility is barely out there within the Apple app retailer, so solely individuals utilizing an iPhone or iPad can create accounts.

Devin Nunes, CEO of the Trump Media & Know-how Group (TMTG), the mother or father firm of Reality Social, instructed Fox Information on Sunday that the app needs to be "totally operational" by late March. Nonetheless, that is just for customers inside america, and as of Monday, individuals exterior of america weren't capable of entry the app.

"It is really very transferring for me to see individuals which can be on the platform which have had their voice canceled," Nunes instructed Fox Information.

Nunes stated the corporate needs customers to explain what they need on the platform, calling it the "reverse" mentality of "some Silicon Valley tech oligarch freak individuals."