Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Former President Trump's new social network is number one on the app store, but has had a bunch of issues as well.

The politics leading to a surge in searches for Duck Duck Go.

Whatever happened to Amazon's Home Robot?

And Weymo successfully sues to keep its failures secret.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

As I write these words, the number one app in all the land is Truth Social, which has risen to the very top of Apple's App Store.

Truth Social is a new social networking app created by a

company backed by former President Donald Trump and yet, unfortunately for

Truth Social, it has been a rough 48 hours or so dealing with that success, quoting the Washington Post.

Truth Social has been almost entirely inaccessible in the first days of its grand debut because of technical glitches, a 13-hour outage, and a 300,000-person

wait list.

Even Trump supporters made jokes about the early slog, Jenna Ellis, a former member of President Trump's legal team

posted to Instagram a photo showing Trump with his finger

hovering over a laptop quote letting us on to truth social one at a time." The site had been heralded for months as

the crown jewel of Trump's post-presidential business ambitions with allies pledging

it would revolutionize social media and take down the mainstream social networks

where Trump is banned.

But early glimpses at Truth Social suggest its offerings are almost identical to what

Twitter and other sites have offered for years, except tweets are called truths and retweets,

retruths.

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