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Clubhouse-maker to terminate the App also for Android Smartphones
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Two million people worldwide, according to the Clubhouse-makers, using the new Audio App in the past week. The Hype is getting bigger and bigger: Soon, the App for Android Smartphones to be available.
The new Social Media App Clubhouse to be able to run even on Smartphones with the Google operating system Android. The company’s founder, Paul Davison and Rohan Seth announced on Sunday in a blog entry. So far, the Audio application is only available for the iPhone. When the Clubhouse will also be available in Google Play Store, not with parts of the Clubhouse-makers.
The Clubhouse is an Audio App, when the user talks, as in the case of a Live-listening to a Podcast or an active part in discussions, are able to participate. In contrast to networks like Twitter, one can assign posts are not written or “Likes” a comment.
“It is the most exciting thing we have ever attended”
Davison and Seth wrote, with a Clubhouse, you have hit the nerve of people to meet. “And it has developed in the last ten months – by a small handful of Beta testers to a diverse network of Communities.” In the past week, two million people around the world have visited the “Clubhouse to exchange ideas, to learn, to laugh, to be entertained, to meet and to network”. “It is the most exciting thing we have ever participated in.”
With two million active users with Clubhouse is much smaller than Twitter, with around 330 million active users.
The programming of an Android Version, but is apparently still at the very beginning: You will soon “start working on the Android App and additional features for accessibility and localization, so that people around the world can experience the Clubhouse in a way that feels familiar to you”, re-wrote the company’s founder.
Privacy advocates criticize the dissemination method of the App
Meanwhile, you’ll be sure to get technical problems with the servers because of the large user-feed in the handle. “A big part of a new round of financing will be channeled into the technology and infrastructure to scale the Clubhouse experience for all, so that it will always be fast and performant, regardless of how many people participate.”
For the viral dissemination of the Clubhouse relies on a controversial method, which was already the basis of the rapid growth of WhatsApp. After you have installed the App, and the invitation is activated, the App access to all of the entries in the contacts address book of the iPhone. This practice has been criticised on WhatsApp of privacy advocates in Europe, but, because the user should, in fact, previously, each individual contact to ask for permission before personal information is transferred to servers in the United States.
