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Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is working on a Clubhouse clone
- cloudking 6y agoI wonder if nearly every major network (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Slack, Spotify etc) cloning Clubhouse as a feature is actually helping Clubhouse with free marketing? It may also be better for them to focus on doing one thing really well, rather than doing it sub-par as a feature. Facebook copied TikTok's video format as a feature in Instagram, and TikTok is still gaining popularity as they haven't changed their focus.
- rPlayer6554 6y agoBut the opposite can happen like when Instagram copied Snapchat's functionality. I think the difference was Tiktok has a lot of creators entrenched in the platform with a strong community while Snapchat didn't have any sense of community. If Facebook/others are successful will probably depend on what kind of community they can build.
- sjg007 6y agoSnapchat is back though..
- Firebrand 6y agoTikTok is a special case since it’s owned by a conglomerate with deep enough pockets to brute force their way into Western consciousness. They most likely pay their top creators not to post Instagram Reels. I don’t think it would have nearly the amount of success today if it were an American company going through the traditional VC funding route.
- diveanon 6y agoDoes clubhouse have an android app yet?
- knolax 6y agoInstagram and Youtube did the same with TikTok. Maybe one day all the FAANG companies will have massive identical apps with a gazillion features cobbled together. The social media equivalent of Emacs.
- nowherebeen 6y agoFacebook is just copying anything and everything that is social media. They want to own all your personal conversations online. That itself should be scary enough for anyone.
- alexfromapex 6y agoAgreed, I wish everyone wouldn’t keep supporting their attempts to crush competitors and harvest everyone’s data. It seems like antitrust laws should be rewritten to apply here.
- zeb88 6y agoGood luck, guess it's better than being spied to by Agora.io/CCP, the provider of voice service to Clubhouse.
- PikachuEXE 6y agoI probably choose not to use any clone to avoid privacy issue. I don't see myself having incentive to use Clubhouse like services anyway.
- zeb88 6y agoYeah I think it's more of a fad and people will get fatigued by it eventually.
- TechBro8615 6y agoIf you’re choosing to speak into a megaphone on Clubhouse, effectively speaking publicly, why do you care if CCP listens?
- _nhh 6y agoDataleaks included? _