But Parler, facing its own shutdowns from Apple and Amazon Web Services, is now a website that's a shadow of its former self (traffic has fallen from 20M monthly visitors in January to 2.6M in April). The Trump Organization had reportedly talked with conservative social-media network Parler about taking a stake.And Trump has a rough target of unveiling social-media plans by July 4 - and it may take multiple partners to replace the functions the former president got out of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.He wants cash money up front, like a license fee,” one person familiar with the process told the WSJ. A key consideration for Trump's choice in a new medium, according to the WSJ, is being paid in exchange for the millions of followers he would bring. Facebook had sidelined Trump ( as had Twitter ( TWTR +3.4%), Snap ( SNAP +4.6%) and YouTube ( GOOG +2.4%, GOOGL +2.1%)) following Trump's social-media behavior around the Jan.The discussions are ramping up more now that Facebook's ( FB +3.7%) quasi-independent Oversight Board has upheld Trump's suspension from the network (though it pressed Facebook to either set a time limit on that suspension or delete Trump's account permanently).That includes fledgling CloutHub, whose CEO visited with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate last month, and Skylab Apps, the maker of Facebook alternative FreeSpace, The Wall Street Journal reports.With no route through big social media, Donald Trump has been in talks with a number of small platforms as he looks to build a new online megaphone to disseminate his thoughts.
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