Donald Trump's social media app, Reality Social, has spiked in reputation and overwhelmed Twitter to succeed in the highest spot on Apple's app chart this week.

Elon Musk, who not too long ago acquired Twitter for $44 billion dollars shared a snapshot of Apple's high free apps chart on his Twitter web page on Wednesday.

Reality Social ranked primary, Twitter second, Livein third, BeReal fourth and TikTok fifth.

"Earlier than April 23, Reality Social had not beforehand ranked since March 12," Stephanie Chan, cell insights strategist at Sensor Tower advised publication The Wrap. "This was additionally the primary time Reality Social has ranked at No.1 on the general U.S. App Retailer since Feb 24 shortly after its launch.

Reality Social has been downloaded roughly 1.4 million occasions to this point because it launched in February, in keeping with Sensor Tower.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump's Reality Social app has outranked Twitter on U.S. app charts this week. Pictured, Trump speaks throughout a rally hosted by the previous president on the Delaware County Fairgrounds on April 23, 2022 in Delaware, Ohio.Getty Photographs/Drew Angerer

Reality Social was launched following Trump's everlasting ban from Twitter and has been praised by some Conservatives for addressing the perceived points surrounding huge tech.

Trump's social media app launch initially skilled a number of points, nonetheless. The app encountered crashes, copyright infringement accusations and lengthy waitlists to join the platform.

The waitlist reached virtually 1.5 million in early April with some branding it a catastrophe, in keeping with a BBC report.

Trump Media and Know-how Group (TMTG) CEO and former congressman Devin Nunes introduced final week on Friday that Reality Social had cleared its waitlist backlog.

Whereas talking on the present Simply The Information with John Solomon and Amanda Head, Nunes stated that the platform was now open to thousands and thousands of customers after migrating its web site and cell purposes to Rumble's cloud infrastructure.

"It means you will be getting on inside hours, we're on the Apple app retailer, you'll be able to go obtain it and you will get on briefly order," Nunes stated throughout the present.

"We opened the brand new Rumble cloud yesterday early within the morning and it went off flawlessly, fortunately, as a result of that is one thing that we had been beta-testing for a lot of weeks," he stated. "I feel within the subsequent few hours or so we're going to eliminate this waitlist. Perhaps tomorrow morning however it's coming rapidly, it's an thrilling time and it has simply been enjoyable."

Within the final week, Trump known as on extra folks to hitch his social media platform and introduced that he wouldn't be returning to Twitter, even when Musk allowed him, in keeping with a Fox Information report.

"I am not occurring Twitter, I'm going to remain on Reality," Trump advised Fox Information. "I hope Elon buys Twitter as a result of he'll make enhancements to it and he is an efficient man, however I'm going to be staying on Reality."

Trump additionally commented on whether or not he seen a Musk-led Twitter as competitors.

"I feel it's good. We would like liberty and justice and equity in our nation, and the extra we are able to have open, the higher. However no, I do not view that as a contest for what I'm doing.

"This can be a platform for my voice. Reality is a platform for my voice and for my supporters.

"However I would like everyone to come back over to Reality, conservatives, liberals, no matter,"

Newsweek has reached out to Donald Trump's workplace for remark.