YouTube is the undisputed king of videos, Instagram is theundisputed king of photos, Twitter is the undisputed king of very short postsin the form of Tweets.
But what about audio? YouTube has always discouraged audioon its website.
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, has laid his sights onaudio chat rooms. The same will come in the two flavours – private audio chatrooms and public audio chat rooms. This was announces in December last year.
The same will challenge Clubhouse, that app which hascrossed 10 million downloads.
Talking about Twitter, it had introduced voice tweets andvoice DMs (Direct Messages) last year.
Initially, the testing was limited to Apple’s operating systemiOS.
Now, the testing has been expanded to include Android operatingsystem also.
Twitter claimed in a statement, “We're expanding to givemore people a chance to join Spaces and listen in! Rolling out over the nextfew days, people with Android will now be able to join, listen, and speak inconversations over Spaces.”
Though, in all the hype, the company reiterates that thefacility of Spaces is in its early days. In other words, the stability of theapp may not be as high as the mature Twitter app has.
Realising the wild extremities to which human nature can goon the Internet (due to the anonymous nature of the Internet), the company’sfirst priority is claimed to be moderation.
The company is looking forward to allow people to monetizetheir efforts.
And given the ubiquity of desktop computers and laptops (forexample all people working in offices during the daytime), the functionalitywill be brought to web interface too in due time.
One thing is clear that the app Clubhouse is givingsleepless nights to Twitter.