YouTube is the undisputed king of videos, Instagram is the undisputed king of photos, Twitter is the undisputed king of very short posts in the form of Tweets.
But what about audio? YouTube has always discouraged audio on its website.
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, has laid his sights on audio chat rooms. The same will come in the two flavours – private audio chat rooms and public audio chat rooms. This was announces in December last year.
The same will challenge Clubhouse, that app which has crossed 10 million downloads.
Talking about Twitter, it had introduced voice tweets and voice DMs (Direct Messages) last year.
Initially, the testing was limited to Apple’s operating system iOS.
Now, the testing has been expanded to include Android operating system also.
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Twitter claimed in a statement, “We're expanding to give more people a chance to join Spaces and listen in! Rolling out over the next few days, people with Android will now be able to join, listen, and speak in conversations over Spaces.”
Though, in all the hype, the company reiterates that the facility of Spaces is in its early days. In other words, the stability of the app may not be as high as the mature Twitter app has.
Realising the wild extremities to which human nature can go on the Internet (due to the anonymous nature of the Internet), the company’s first priority is claimed to be moderation.
The company is looking forward to allow people to monetize their efforts.
And given the ubiquity of desktop computers and laptops (for example all people working in offices during the daytime), the functionality will be brought to web interface too in due time.
One thing is clear that the app Clubhouse is giving sleepless nights to Twitter.