Trump's blog isn't lighting up the internet
Social media data collected by NBC News found little engagement with the posts, which hints at the effectiveness of deplatforming.
The Desk of Donald J. Trump is limited — users can’t comment or engage with the actual posts beyond sharing them to other platforms, an action few people do, according to the data. Trump’s new blog has attracted a little over 212,000 engagements, defined as backlinks and social interactions — including likes, shares and comments — received across Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Reddit.
Before the ban, a single Trump tweet was typically liked and retweeted hundreds of thousands of times