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Twitter Blue, the paid subscription service that was recently discovered with a distinctive user experience on the microblogging site, has now apparently been confirmed. Twitter has included the paid service as an in-app purchase within its app listing on the App Store. However, the experience is yet to go live for the public. It is said to bring features including the anticipated ‘Undo Tweet' option and colour themes. Separately, Twitter has brought its Clubhouse-style Spaces to the Web for a broader audience.Reverse engineering expert Jan Manchun Wong has spotted the reference of Twitter Blue as an in-app purchase in Twitter's listing on the App Store. The service is priced at $2.99 (Rs. 269 in India) for a month. However, it isn't accessible through the Twitter app at this moment.Twitter Blue has been listed as an in-app purchase on the App StoreWong said that she has started testing the feature as the first paying Twitter Blue customer. The service brings colour themes and custom app icons.  » Read More

Twitter continues its rollout of Spaces by adding the ability to join in-progress chats from the web for the first time. You can't create a Space yet, but that's likely in the works for a future update. Right now, Spaces on the web are still classed as a beta feature which means you might run into some issues here and there. Still, being able to listen in to a new Space is a good start – and you can set reminders to join a scheduled Space, too. Spaces are making their way to Twitter for web! Now you can join a Space to listen in, test out the new transcription design, and set reminders to join a scheduled Space. https://t.co/xFTEeAgM4x— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 26, 2021 Spaces are Twitter's answer to Clubhouse, allowing people to join rooms and talk in real-time while a moderator controls who can and cannot speak. The latest move comes after Twitter promised to bring Spaces to the web last month.  » Read More

In this week’s SportsMoney Playbook: the gaming world’s microchip dilemma, Naomi Osaka’s new threads and more money for digital collectibles. Plus: a trailblazing basketball recruiter shares her NBA dreams. Sports Business Tibles, a digital collectibles platform that uses blockchain technology to trade NFTs, announced a $1.14 million funding round led by Dapper Labs, the creator of NBA Top Shot. Another online marketplace for buying and selling collectibles, Whatnot, raised $50 million in Series B funding just three months after a $20 million Series A round. The audio-focused social media app Clubhouse is media's hot new property, but Twitter has been methodically building out a competitor over the last year. Sports leagues like MLB and the NBA have quickly taken to the product. College Sports A partnership between an early mover in the student-athlete social media space and a data analytics company known for industry valuations could give star college athletes like Paige Bueckers and Chet Holmgren an idea of the market value of their NIL rights.  » Read More

Social networks such as Twitter are competing with startup Clubhouse by launching their own live audio products. Getty Images On Thursday, Jeremy Browning, a Twitter product manager, gave the public a behind-the-scenes look at a new feature the company built for live audio chats. Not everyone, though, could understand what he was saying.Fittingly, Browning hosted the conversation on Spaces, Twitter's live audio product. The audio chat tool has live captioning, a feature meant to help hearing-impaired people. Twitter users trying to follow the conversation solely through the captions likely had a tough time deciphering Browning's words. Cut through the chatter Subscribe to CNET's Mobile newsletter for the latest phone news and reviews. "I was sort of by virtue of being employed and Twitter able to see and you Spaces before the war the water public was a small percentage of the pop quiz," a live caption of Browning's remarks in the Twitter Space read. Browning actually told the audience that as a Twitter employee he was able to see new Spaces before a small percentage of the public was.   » Read More

Clubhouse might be able to grow the number of daily active users now that its service is open to Android phones, but experts think the staggered rollout will affect the overall success of the platform. The voice-only chatting social media platform announced on May 21 its global rollout to Android users, but similar to iOS users, it will be on an invite-only basis. You'll also be able to use Clubhouse only on Android 8.0 and above, though that shouldn't be an issue for any of the best Android phones. The platform launched in 2020 and, at the time, was only accessible to iPhone users. The app became so popular that several social media platforms released features that imitated Clubhouse. Alex Kantrowitz, the writer for the Big Technology newsletter, said in an interview that while it's common for many app developers to release on one platform first, in the case of Clubhouse, the move was "especially detrimental." Kantrowitz explained that Clubhouse is the type of social media platform where conversations will happen all the time.  » Read More

Earlier this month, the writer and English professor Barrett Swanson published a story in Harper’s about his five days at Clubhouse, the collective of dozens of college-aged social media hopefuls living in a smattering of content mansions in Los Angeles. He emerged with the sneaking suspicion that maybe all of this is bad, not only for the world but for the influencers themselves. “For a moment, I cannot remember who I am or why I am sitting here amid this sea of beautiful young people, all of them desperate for recognition, their whole lives ahead of them, empty at the absolute center,” he writes in the closing paragraph. “TikTok is a sign of the future, which already feels like a thing of the past. It is the clock counting down our fifteen seconds of fame, the sound the world makes as time is running out.” It’s easily the best and most depressing piece of journalism about famous TikTokers I’ve ever read, a “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” for influencers. Here are some things Swanson witnesses on his visit: a 19-year-old who just made $60,000 by filming a Lady and the Tramp-style kiss with his girlfriend as sponcon for a chicken-fingers joint;  » Read…

Public, the trading and social networking app, is the next app to get into live audio. Like many apps before it, the company says it’s planning to roll out live audio features starting this week under the name Public Live. Unlike its competitors, like Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces, however, Public will initially program these chats with moderators it pays, meaning not just anyone can start a conversation. It’ll host about three events a week, and users will receive a push notification to join, along with a badge inside the app allowing them to hop into it. Topics might include coverage of an upcoming IPO, the day’s news, or analysis. The first chat will be between Scott Galloway, who co-hosts the Pivot podcast and is an investor in the app, and Stephanie Ruhle, an NBC News senior business correspondent and MSNBC anchor. It’ll be live in the app this upcoming Wednesday and won’t be recorded for publish anywhere else. Other future hosts include Nora Ali, a former Cheddar News anchor, and Kinsey Grant, co-founder of Thinking is Cool and the former host of the Morning Brew Business Casual podcast.  » Read More

Have you any Clubhouse invites going? I have five, if anyone wants one. Or is it six? I have to admit I’m not sure — like many people I know, I haven’t looked at the app for some weeks now. Clubhouse seems painfully aware of the fact that decreasing numbers of people do. The wild party that is — was — Clubhouse is winding down. The iOS app, that opened up a members-only world of virtual real-time audio chatrooms is now struggling against falling audiences, increased fuss over mediocre, unmoderated, unpleasant content and the fact that companies such as Twitter and Facebook have neatly purloined the audio concept at its heart and refashioned it for themselves. For a company fueled on the adrenaline of venture capitalists who have injected over $14 million in funding since March last year, the falling numbers portend doom. Twitter Spaces, which launched a few weeks ago, could crush Clubhouse, unless the latter can quickly apply the brakes on its decline. With around 350 million users, Spaces is luring away substantial numbers of Clubhouse’s 10-15 million members — and with them that all-important content generation.  » Read More

Mon., May 24, 2021By Ronn Torossian Ronn Torossian Audio platform Clubhouse was valued at less than $100 million at the end of last year. A month later, that valuation hit $1 billion. That’s pretty impressive for an invite-only app that launched only last year. Similar to when Twitter or Facebook first launched, companies are now wondering whether they should utilize the voice-powered social media network in their public relations and marketing campaigns. Although that decision depends largely on the nature of the business itself, Clubhouse is proving to be a useful tool for practically everyone. Messaging and control When creating a room within the Clubhouse app, companies should always have a moderator who has the option to allow others to participate in the conversation. All it takes is a press of a button, and anyone can be added or removed from the group of participants. Having a moderator means conversations and messaging will be largely controlled, which is beneficial in these types of voice apps, as things can get loud quickly.  » Read More

Clubhouse, the audio-only application that grew to fame over the last couple of months, was recently launched on Android, providing access to the masses. If you, too, have joined Clubhouse recently, it might be a bit overwhelming, especially considering the UI and how it differs from regular social media apps like Twitter or Instagram.If you wish to know about how Clubhouse works and, more importantly, how to use one of the most talked-about applications in recent times, worry not, as this article will help you to achieve this goal.Clubhouse: How To Sign UpThe first time you download Clubhouse, you will get a prompt as soon as you switch on the app, asking you to get your username. Once this is done, you will be asked to wait until you are let onto the platform.An alternative that is highlighted below is that of an invite, which you can get from a friend or mutual beneficiary who can provide an invite,  » Read More