Facebook is developing audio chat rooms similar to Clubhouse

Clubhouse is still invite-only and only available on iOS, but an Android version is in development. Within a year of its launch, the app has reached 13 million downloads.

 

To compete with the latest social media trend of audio chat rooms, Facebook, the social media giant is looking at introducing Clubhouse-like services. It has been discovered that it is testing a feature that will allow users to create a private audio room with their friends. This will most likely be part of Facebook’s Messenger Rooms, which debuted last year.

 

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There are three options for ‘Rooms’ in a screenshot posted by developer Alessandro Paluzzi. One of these is audio, which allows users to build their own private audio room with their friends.

 

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There’s also the option of streaming an audio-only room to listeners for live audio. This seems to be a variant of Facebook’s Clubhouse-style experiment. The new audio rooms functionality is currently in testing, and no date has been set for when it will be available to all users.

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There are three options for ‘Rooms’

Last month, Bloomberg reported that Facebook’s audio chat product will most likely be integrated with Messenger Rooms. Customers can start a video chat room here and invite others to join.

 

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This has been identified as a potential rival to Zoom. Now, the same could be said for Clubhouse, which is without a doubt one of the most popular social networking apps right now.

 

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Clubhouse is still invite-only and only available on iOS, but an Android version is in development. Within a year of its launch, the app has reached 13 million downloads.

 

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Clubhouse already has a big rival in the form of Twitter Spaces, which will soon be open to all users. There are more Clubhouse knockoffs in the works, but the ones to keep an eye on are those from players like Facebook and Twitter.