Facebook is working on a competitor to the buzzy social appClubhouse , the New York Times reports.- The project reportedly intends to replicate the core function of Clubhouse: audio-based chatrooms.
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Facebook has a team working on a new project that aims to replicate the core functionality of the buzzy new
The Facebook project is intended to create audio-based chat rooms for users, the report said, but it's still in the early stages.
The buzzy new social media app du jour, Clubhouse, quickly leapt from obscurity to notoriety in recent weeks, as big names like Elon Musk and $4 joined the service and participated in live chats.
Clubhouse's key functionality is voice-based communication: Users join group voice-chat rooms. Though Twitter has $4, it hasn't caught on like Clubhouse has.
$4Clubhouse is invite-only, but it's $4 in the near future.
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Though Facebook has yet to officially confirm such a project, there's a long history of Facebook replicating key features of its rivals through Facebook and Facebook's subsidiaries.
Instagram Stories, for instance, is largely a re-creation of a similar function on Snapchat. $4, as was WhatsApp. And Instagram's "Reels" functionality is intended to rival TikTok, another buzzy social media app.
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