Clubhouse Reportedly Surpasses 8 Million App Store Downloads

[hot-gril]

Also, Clubhouse is rife with security and privacy issues:

The Clubhouse App is a Stalkers Dream and Your Worst Nightmare

Every single person who has ever had my phone number would have immediate access to my Clubhouse profile. They could find me and listen to me in rooms. You can't even delete your own Clubhouse account!

www.crazyintherain.com

This invite-only social media alternative has some serious privacy concerns

Clubhouse, an audio-only social media app, has taken the world by storm. But Chinese connections raise privacy concerns.

www.komando.com

At first I thought those were FUD, but they link to real findings. Room and user IDs are transmitted without encryption for some reason. For a modern app not to encrypt client-to-server traffic is a red flag; that's a pretty low bar to pass.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1360423163125919749

 

[Illuminated]

So it's "somewhat exclusive" and "invite only", but has 8 million downloads?

Because people invite others. Each person has 2 invites, and as people be more and more active, they get more invites. Not a difficult concept to grasp.

They feature a random Clubhouse member as their app logo every month.

Not random. They're influential musicians or impact influencers.

 

[Illuminated]

What is novel about this? It’s hype and mirrors. Z-berg is toxic. I wouldn’t be touting his association with anything.

Relaxxxx, he was just a guest speaker one night. Clubhouse is not run by Facebook.

 

[grantew1]

Of course they are. If theres a revenue stream potential, they'll be there like a fly on a turd!

This part seems like you're jealous of their success.

 

[5232152]

So then with people your interested in ... it's a drop in the pond whether or not they're "in" a video for you to listen to or join into right? IF nobody is there you'd be non-the-wiser or are you somehow notified?

invite please?

You follow people but notifications lets you know what they are talking about and what the title of the meeting is. Mind you it's not video but audio only (I think). I've heard people from businesses I didn't even know existed saying such profound things that I blew my mind.

Regarding invitations people have to be in your contacts or something for them to show up - so it's not just a hyperlink you can toss around, unfortunately.

 

[pers0n]

FB will clone this and so will a bunch of the other big companies to keep their dominance, because when you have $$$ there is no need to innovate, just copy others

 

[MacBH928]

Paltalk did this like 2 decades ago. There is nothing new here.

 

[rafark]

That’s why investing in social media stocks like FB is extremely risky...tiktok, Snapchat. Clubhouse etc...anybody can come up with anything at anytime it goes viral and there everybody goes....can’t create a microprocessor in your garage but u certainly can create clubhouse...

I mean Facebook will probably hit two decades since it’s foundation and it’s very likely to still be widely used. Nowadays people are connected to the internet everywhere they go 24/7. The majority of people need an alternative to stop using Facebook and so far neither Apple nor even google have been able to come up with a solid alternative despite their massive amount of influence, resources and infrastructure.

Facebook at this point is more than a website, it’s a brand. Like when you search something you go to google. When you want to watch a music video you go to YouTube, etc.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I can't imagine why I would would want this. I don't like talking to people I know on the phone....

And yet, you talk to people you don't know on MR

 

[Apple_Robert]

Paltalk did this like 2 decades ago. There is nothing new here.

Paltalk was fun back in the day.

 

[kingtj1971]

So ick.... destined to be another app that might become popular, but just re-invents the proverbial wheel. (I put Twitter in this category, BTW. App did absolutely nothing you couldn't already do other ways, except created an artificial limit on how much you could type. So novel only in the sense it was more LIMITING than other alternatives. When it started losing popularity, they opened it up to supporting multimedia attachments and let people type more characters .... like other options always let you do.)

 

[Illuminated]

Huh. That is interesting. At first I assumed it would be a weird, dark, gross chat room but with people actually talking instead of typing. But if there are different categories to choose from this may be cool! I’d love to see if any of my hobbies or pet projects are on here.

I've been able to find everything I am interested in. I have networked. I have met new people. Spoke with people across the world. I have grown my business two fold in just 2 weeks, and my contact list ten-fold. It's insane the power of Clubhouse!

 

[Runs For Fun]

And yet I can’t get an invite. 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[hipnetic]

Sounds a bit like phreaking

 

[DrRadon]

This is such a great platform! <3

 

[macduke]

I’m trying to imagine telling my teenage self, a user of Myspace, that social networks in the future will become popular because CEOs make appearances on them.

But then again, I was friends with Tom.

 

[sevoneone]

It was cool for all of a few days, but it really just got annoying to me... it fits the current trend of making technology less convenient by creating a sense of immediacy and urgency by making things "exclusive" and short lived. The trend lately seems to be going back to the days when fear of missing out could drive huge audiences to tune in to content at exactly the same time. This is all in the name of eventual ad revenue of course. Gen Z keeps thinking they've discovered something completely new, when it is the same thing that worked for radio and tv broadcasting for the better part of a century...

 

[svanstrom]

Gen Z keeps thinking they've discovered something completely new, when it is the same thing that worked for radio and tv broadcasting for the better part of a century...

If you find something that is new to you, and useful, but you discover that it actually is decades old; would you then discard it simply because it wasn't new?

I think that people that scoff at younger generations, dismissing new things because "back in my day…", simply are out of their time; and bitter about it.

Yes, perhaps you did have some favourite FM or AM station that you used to listen to back in the day, and yes, maybe people did call in; and yes, maybe Clubhouse reminds you about that whole thing. But Clubhouse isn't that old thing; and the way that you have rooms and profiles and essentially unlimited "stations" and anyone can start a "show" and and and… If all you can get out of that is a tired old "back in my day" tirade, then I feel sorry for you.

You don't have to like a new thing, you don't have to use a new thing, you don't even have to understand it; but it makes you one miserable old git if you keep dismissing anything new, and people like that tend to become very lonely when they get older. They tend to simply not be pleasant to be around; and they tend to get worse for every year passing.

Just imagine being a young(er) person coming to an older relative excited about something new in their life, that brings them joy, only to be met with a rude and dismissive "that's stupid, because when I was younger"… And now compare that with the joy of that kid instead being met with a "hey, can you explain how that's different from the [thing] that I grew up with?".

 

[chucker23n1]

Gen Z keeps thinking they've discovered something completely new,

Clubhouse is hardly the thing of choice for Gen Z. They hate phones.

 

[amartinez1660]

Gross. Mark Zuckerberg is on it? Count me out.

Indeed! Does he have a stake in it? Whatsapp style when it came out? I bet he does, it’s more yummy user data for him

 

[NufSaid]

I guess at 10 million it looses its 'cool' and 'exclusive' aura?

Who knows but its a practice that works - has at night clubs, bars, exclusive hotels, etc etc.

Agreed. It is already getting that way. The usual big guns are racing in and dominating.

 

[imom]

Another Silicon Valley hyped-up company which will be forgotten in 5 years from now.

 

[ErikGrim]

I have an account and I've used it approx zero times. I don't get the hype here.

 

[Nikelectric]

I guess at 10 million it looses its 'cool' and 'exclusive' aura?

Who knows but its a practice that works - has at night clubs, bars, exclusive hotels, etc etc.

Anyone can download it. Probably 75-80% non-invitees hoping for their shot at an invite

 

[svanstrom]

Anyone can download it. Probably 75-80% non-invitees hoping for their shot at an invite

The app also lets you register your favourite username before you actually get an invitation; so, depending on your level of cynicalism, that's either a useful pre-invitation feature, or a FOMO-trigger.

I couldn't care less about Clubhouse until I one day wanted a new toy because this damn social distancing just hit a bit harder. 🤷

The thing about Clubhouse is that you either have to follow famous/interesting people, or have an active (interesting) network yourself. There's just no showing up and instantly getting "the good stuff". So just randomly getting in wouldn't do much good for most people; they'd just get bored by the lack of good content.