It was fast: Instagram may soon launch its competitor to the growing social network - and allow us to chat with followers in audio rooms • In addition, video calls also reach the platform
Photo: Yinon Ben-Shoshan
The Clubhouse voice chat app is still only open to iOS users, but Facebook - known for its tendency to emulate competitors (aka Snapchat) - may very soon launch a similar product on Instagram that will allow users to chat with followers.
The source of the report is the identification of a blogger and app developer named Alessandro Palozi, who tweeted about the discovery on his Twitter account.
According to the photos published by Palozi, it seems that the social network has developed its version of Clubhouse quickly and has already implemented it in the app, this appears as a small microphone icon at the top of the inbox - next to a video camera icon, another innovation.
#Instagram is working on audio rooms pic.twitter.com/5TI6YzLi9A
- Alessandro Paluzzi (@ alex193a) March 6, 2021
For those unfamiliar with the emerging social network, this is a chat-based chat platform, where there are rooms or groups around a particular topic, with one or more speakers, who can also allow others to join the conversation.
Do not see - only hear.
Like in a podcast.
The story behind Clubhouse begins in May 2020, when Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, well-known figures in Silicon Valley, launched an app that works on the opposite principle from what Facebook and Instagram have accustomed us to.
Instead of taxis they offered exclusivity.
As mentioned, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, was recently interested in the app and even hosted it and talked about augmented reality. Last month it was worth $ 1 billion, with Ayalon Musk having a conversation with "Robin Hood" CEO Vlad Teneb, in a chat that he demanded. The number of participants allowed in the "room".
