Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse
The increasingly popular social media app is allowing conspiracy theories … Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : What is Clubhouse and why is Facebook cloning the voice chat app? The Economic Times : ETtech Evening Briefing on Feb 11, 2021: Koo app's Indian investors, Facebook's Clubhouse clone Ashley Carman / The Verge : Facebook is reportedly working on a Clubhouse copy Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg : Facebook Exploring Audio-Chat Products to Rival Clubhouse Carsten Drees / NextPit : Clubhouse: Facebook and Twitter work on copycats Fortune : What antitrust investigation? — Facebook appears to be relying on its age-old playbook … Josiah Motley / KnowTechie : Facebook is building a Clubhouse competitor because the company is officially out of ideas Jagmeet Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360 : Twitter Spaces Gets Wider Testing to Take on Clubhouse Kris Holt / Engadget : Facebook is reportedly working on its own version of Clubhouse Firstpost Tech : Facebook is working on a Clubhouse-like audio chat product: Report Jay Bonggolto / Neowin : Facebook is reportedly developing its own Clubhouse-like audio chat service Chris Smith / BGR : Facebook will clone the social network app that Elon Musk just used Steve Vegvari / iPhone in Canada Blog : Facebook is Reportedly Developing its Own Clubhouse Clone Techpoint Africa : Clubhouse: Et tu, Facebook? iROKOtv IPO, more Shabana Arif / t3.com : Facebook is already working on a Clubhouse clone because of course it is Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends : Facebook reportedly has a Clubhouse clone in its sights Ivan Mehta / The Next Web : Everyone's obsessed with Clubhouse, so Facebook is reportedly making its own Chris Noon / Facebook Technology : Made in Seattle: Messenger Rooms Ewdison Then / SlashGear : Facebook reportedly eying Clubhouse clone for its next trick Jessibelle Garcia / MUO : Facebook Is Working on New App Compete With Clubhouse Stacy Liberatore / Daily Mail : Facebook is reportedly building its own version of the audio-only social app Clubhouse less than a week after Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on the new platform Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : Facebook rumored to be working on Clubhouse competitor, Twitter expands Spaces beta Mehreen Kasana / Input : Facebook is working on its own Clubhouse copycat app Queenie Wong / CNET : Facebook is creating an audio chat product to rival Clubhouse, report says Derrek Lee / Android Central : Facebook wants to join the Clubhouse craze with its own version of the app Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Facebook is Reportedly Developing its Own Clubhouse Clone Terry Nguyen / Vox : Clubhouse, the invite-only audio app, explained Sanuj Bhatia / iPhone Hacks : Report: Facebook Could Launch a Clubhouse Clone Soon Nadeem Sarwar / Pocketnow : Facebook is busy cloning Clubhouse. Of course, because it can, and has done so in the past too! Brandon Russell / XDA Developers : Clubhouse could be the latest app cloned by Facebook Brenda Stolyar / Mashable : Facebook is reportedly coming after Clubhouse with its own audio-based service Ben Gilbert / Insider : Facebook is reportedly working on a competitor to the buzzy new social media app Clubhouse Tweets: Rat King / @mikeisaac : News: Facebook is working on a Clubhouse competitor, a move into audio as the company continues to expand into different forms of social networking Clubhouse, of course, is on a growth tear in recent weeks https://www.nytimes.com/... Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias : Not going to dignify this with a link, but the difference between Clubhouse and something like Facebook is that **nothing** can “spread unchecked” on Clubhouse because it's live audio to people who opted-in to the room with no algorithmic promotion to anyone. https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : This story is a Rorschach for how you think about content moderation and platform responsibility. Is it their responsibility to prevent users from saying false things unchallenged? Or are they just responsible for not systemically amplifying false things? https://www.vice.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Literally took six days https://twitter.com/... Neelesh Misra / @neeleshmisra : Three cheers for audio! Audio's future is safe and secure and platforms better realise it soon! https://twitter.com/... Alex Cohen / @anothercohen : Interesting new job opening at Facebook https://twitter.com/... Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo : when was the last time Facebook came up with a new idea on its own https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : I wrote about blocking on Twitter, Clubhouse, and elsewhere. It's a crude, effective, and necessary tool for our moment of context collapse. But it could also stand to be improved. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... J. Nathan Matias / @natematias : The most important sentence in the article: “There are currently no internal Clubhouse-employed moderators.” https://twitter.com/... Erica Joy / @ericajoy : you just know every company right now is like “how do we put audio into our pet shampoo delivery app?” https://twitter.com/... Mundinho Gil Locura BR / @df_porto : “Capitalism Breeds Innovation” https://twitter.com/... Darren Rovell / @darrenrovell : The next 2 weeks are going to be critical for Clubhouse. Everyone is coming for them. Facebook will have greatest shot based on history of them usurping stories from Snapchat. Twitter I give much lower odds of pulling anything off. https://twitter.com/... Vijay Shekhar Sharma / @vijayshekhar : A social product's success and impact can be judged by Facebook's reaction. https://twitter.com/... Rohit / @krishnanrohit : @Techmeme @davemcclure @MikeIsaac One think I love about Facebook (unironically) is that when they see a great product they have zero shame in copying. Makes the whole industry move much faster that way. It's awesome. Naysayers bear in mind the alternative isn't not copying, it's bad copying. Hilluminati / @bryanedwardhill : The last damn thing I want in the world is to HEAR everyone on Facebook. https://twitter.com/... Kia K. / @imkialikethecar : @thekenyeung also remember the Facebook Rooms app?? Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed : 2.6 billion people use a Facebook app everyday — not a bad user base to try to clone @joinClubhouse — maybe Mark will appear regularly to drive engagement early on https://www.nytimes.com/... Jon Russell / @jonrussell : The only thing as inevitable as China blocking Clubhouse, which happened this week, was Facebook cloning Clubhouse Et voilà... https://twitter.com/... Dan Primack / @danprimack : During Clubhouse-focused pod with @KatieS on Monday, I noted that there's “never been a good social media idea that Facebook hasn't tried to copy.” https://podcasts.apple.com/... And. There. It. Is. https://www.nytimes.com/... Tyler Stalman / @stalman : I'm getting so sick of this business model. Every social tech product needs to be every product as fast as possible https://www.theverge.com/... Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : As usual, @CaseyNewton nails it with this critique of Clubhouse's blocking tools that also effectively defends blocking, too. My guess: the app and its copycats will implement a different set of options and rules for popular “broadcast mode” chats soon. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... Product Hunt / @producthunt : Dear Facebook, This ain't it, chief. https://twitter.com/... Christina Warren / @film_girl : LOL. Not sure about the rest of you but there are few people I'd rather talk to less than the people I'm friends with on Facebook. https://twitter.com/... @morningbrew : Not Facebook copying another tech company's product https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... @hunterwalk : Pivot to Video But Without The Visuals https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : (They are responsible for not amplifying false things) https://twitter.com/... Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung : So Facebook's Clubhouse competitor will be different from its Messenger Rooms...how? I'm genuinely curious to know beyond it just being audio-only. Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : it's wild to me that apps/services/social networks are still launching in 2020 or 2021 and being limited to just iPhones. Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : facebook's clubhouse competitor will win in the end simply because facebook will be bothered to build an Android app and can address a much larger market Scott Galloway / @profgalloway : Clubhouse,,,meet club. https://twitter.com/... Steven Levy / @stevenlevy : We all knew that Facebook would do its own version of Clubhouse. Generally those have failed (copies of 4SQ, Snapchat, etc.) But Stories was a huge win. So it's worth it for FB to take a shot, especially since gov wouldn't approve a sale. Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : So both Twitter & Facebook are rushing to respond to a competitive threat in a market I was told — in no uncertain terms — was forever blocked from any new competitive entrants? And that doesn't even get to the fact that @mcuban is working on a competitor as well. https://twitter.com/... Neil Shah / @neiltwitz : @Spotify or @LinkedIn can be much better platforms to build a Clubhouse clone and be successful! https://twitter.com/... Brenden Mulligan / @mulligan : The fact that it's in the “earliest stages of development” shows how out of it Facebook is these days. https://twitter.com/... Robert Stephens / @rstephens : I'd love it if Clubhouse announced they were building a newsfeed-based social network https://twitter.com/... Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle : I think we've officially had enough STEM education as a country, time to start getting kids to do other stuff, we're all set thanks https://twitter.com/... @caro : It's tough to tell whether this is designed to be a real product or is one of those wacky clone apps that Facebook seems to release every couple of years where it's unclear how serious they really are. Case in point... https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Oliver Willis / @owillis : microsoft did this all the time in the 80s and 90s. copy copy copy. or just buy the company then kill it internally. https://twitter.com/... Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : Instagram and WhatsApp unbundled Facebook, but Clubhouse and Substack are trying to unbundle Twitter. Equally, LinkedIn adding newsletters makes far more sense for its ‘platform for content-marketing’ strategy than Facebook doing the same. Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : People have done audio chat for ever, but the differences are in the mechanics and the network. Clubhouse isn't Discord any more than Instagram was Flickr. So, maybe you could add a Clubhouse tab to Facebook, but it wouldn't be the same network Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : In other words, sometimes the feature works in any network, and sometimes the network is the feature. Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : Some ideas in social are packets that can live in lots of different kinds of networks. Stories don't have to be in Snapchat to make sense. But sometimes the network is the point - you can't clone tweets into other networks. Same w/ Tiktok, probably: the network is the point Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp : It would be more newsworthy if Facebook *wasn't* working on a Clubhouse competitor. https://www.nytimes.com/... Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : @pierce ‘Audio chat’ is't new at all. It's the network that matters. Not the same as adding stories, IMO Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : FWIW, Twitter's Clubhouse clone has a much better chance of working than Facebook's Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Facebook's network structure isn't a good fit for Clubhouse's broadcast/1: many model. Twitter's network is a better fit. Combine this with Facebook's terrible record with new (standalone) product launches, and I'm skeptical. https://twitter.com/... M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Facebook's clone factory is already working on its copy of Clubhouse https://www.nytimes.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : there's also been ongoing experimentation with audio in different forms in Facebook's New Product Experimentation division, or NPE Team. Unclear what will come of all of this or when. Himbo Depot / @db : If there's a new popular social product you can bet that Facebook will be releasing a clone of it, either as an integrated feature or a standalone product 😐 https://twitter.com/... Emil Protalinski / @epro : This cycle is getting hella boring. Next up, Facebook gives up on its Clubhouse ripoff and integrates audio rooms into Instagram or Messenger or WhatsApp. https://twitter.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Facebook's next board meeting is gonnna be lit https://twitter.com/... David Pierce / @pierce : If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em If you can't buy 'em because the department of justice won't allow it ... build it yourself and call it TalkPlace by Facebook or whatever https://twitter.com/... Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : friendly reminder that Marc Andreessen, co-leader of the VC firm behind Clubhouse and one of its highest-profile regular guests, remains on the Facebook board of directors https://www.nytimes.com/... Sara Morrison / @saramorrison : facebook: hello antitrust committee, just want you to know that we don't try to just destroy or buy out any potential competitors. We think competition is good and we have a lot of it. also facebook: https://www.nytimes.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Is this the first time that Twitter beat Facebook to copying a popular app? https://www.nytimes.com/... Scott Nover / @scottnover : It would be cool if Facebook tried to come up with a new idea. https://www.nytimes.com/... O...K / @kateconger : because of course they are https://www.nytimes.com/... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : Facebook has a perfect losing record creating standalone copycat apps. But it keep trying. Clubhouse is next. (FB has had some success copying features and injecting them into current products.) https://www.nytimes.com/... Sara Fischer / @sarafischer : 🎧 Clubhouse has been downloaded about 4.7 million times since September — all but 1 million of those since the end of last year, according to Apptopia. https://www.axios.com/...