He said: “We’re doing a big platform right now. So probably wouldn’t have any interest.

“You know, Twitter has become very boring.”

“They’ve gotten rid of a lot of their good voices on Twitter, a lot of conservative voices and it used to be a war on Twitter, but it was a very interesting war.

“You know, it’d be a war mental mentally … we had some pretty good fights.

“And we would go after the progressives – I call them the unprogressives because they’re actually unprogressive.

“But we’d be fighting back and forth and it was great stuff.

“Now it’s boring and friends of mine tell me that Twitter is not the same place. It’s a very boring place right now.”

Trump’s Truth Social app launched in February. However, the number of downloads has declined.

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In his financial filling, the Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder claimed the social media giant could not promote free speech in its current form.

He said: “I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,’ he said in his financial filing.

“I now realise the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form.”

Later in the day, during an onstage interview at the TED 2022 conference, the South African-born billionaire went further.

He said: “Having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilisation.”