Adam Kos After a few months in its public beta, Twitter Spaces is expanding rapidly across the platform. If you have more than 600 followers, you can start your own Spaces - that's the name of the function in Czech. In contrast, it seems that as competition grows, Clubhouse begins to decline. The network informed about the expansion of the function directly on its platform. It states here that before opening up the possibility of using the Spaces to all users, it will test them within profiles with the potential to reach a wider audience. This is so that Twitter can debug still hidden errors (and that it is really necessary).
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Twitter Spaces is rolling out to more people! now everyone can tap in to join a Space and more of you can host pic.twitter.com/ReSbKTlDCY
- Twitter (@Twitter) May 3, 2021
This "voice chat" feature allows Twitter users to create live rooms where up to 10 people are talking and an unlimited number can join and listen. As the company first announced, Twitter Spaces was set to launch in April, so it's been rolling out a little slower than originally anticipated. When someone you follow starts their Space, you'll see their profile photo at the top of your home screen, accompanied by a purple service icon icon. This is displayed for the entire duration of the active Space. When you join as a listener, you can react to what you hear with emojis, check all pinned tweets, read headlines, tweet, or of course ask to speak and speak.
now, everyone with 600 or more followers can host a Space.
based on what we've learned, these accounts are likely to have a good hosting experience because of their existing audience. before bringing the ability to create a Space to everyone, we're focused on a few things. 🧵
- Spaces (@TwitterSpaces) May 3, 2021
How to start a conversation in Twitter Spaces
As soon as you start the application and have more than 600 followers, the title will guide you through the function itself. In any case, you can create spaces by holding down the button in the lower right corner, which is used to compose the tweet. You will now see a purple icon indicating a new function. After selecting it, all you have to do is name your space, enable the application's access to the phone's microphone and start talking, or invite some network users (using DM). Speech recognition only works in English so far. You can also launch Spaces after selecting your profile photo on the home screen, where you go to the Space menu. But as you can see in the gallery below, the feature still needs some tweaking. On the iPhone XS Max, it does not display some texts correctly, because they overflow over the edges of the display.
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As competition grows, Clubhouse declines
At the beginning of the year, Clubhouse literally grew by leaps and bounds. However, with increasing competition and the constant unavailability of the Android version (at least a beta test has already been launched), the growth is no longer so vigorous. A new survey conducted by the company Tower Sensor claims that the network registered "only" 922 thousand new downloads in April. That's a 66% drop from the app's 2,7 million downloads in the month of March, and even more significant compared to the 9,6 million installs Clubhouse had in February.
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However, the data suggests that Clubhouse user retention is still strong, as most users who have downloaded the app still have it installed. However, the significant drop in downloads is worrying for the company, as it means fewer and fewer potential users are interested in its social network. Of course, the competition is also to blame, with the exception of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Telegram or Spotify, which has already launched or will soon launch its live chat functions. Despite the company being valued at around $1 billion in January and looking for new investors, the future of the Clubhouse chain remains largely unclear.
