Clubhouse App : All You Need To Know about this Trending Social Media Platform

Clubhouse is a drop-in audio social media app. It was launched as an iOS app in March 2020 by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth of Alpha Exploration Co. Recently, in May 2021 the Clubhouse Beta App was released for Android users. Currently, you can use the Clubhouse app only if you have an invite because it is still in the development phase to cater a huge number of upcoming active users.

The Clubhouse app has gained popularity as big names, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, and others have used it. Moreover, it had 6 lakh users (as of December 2020) as per a report by The New York Times. Additionally, it has reached to 5M+ downloads on Google Play Store in a short time.

It received a $12 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz after two months of its launch. In a quick time it reached $100 million when it had only 1500 users, and as of April 2021, it has surpassed $4 billion as per PCMag’s report.

Clubhouse is an audio-based social media app. You can connect with your friends, family, colleagues, and like-minded individuals via audio-chat rooms in this app. The only way to communicate here is with your voice.

A chat room can accompany upto 5000 users so there’s plenty of space available. Here, you can either participate in conversation or just listen to others' live conversations i.e. conversations you would like to be a part of.

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There are many categories which you can follow such as sports, life, faith, places, wellness, tech, etc. Therefore, the Clubhouse app is useful in carrying out audio meetings, conferences, events, live podcasts, and more with just focusing on speaking and listening.

Let's have a look at Clubhouse App’s unique features which are currently accessible to only a few.

Chat Rooms are where users communicate with each other via audio (voice). There are 3 types of rooms which can be created namely open rooms, social rooms, and closed rooms.

Open Rooms - Anyone on Clubhouse can join.

Social Rooms - Whoever the room creator or organizer follows can join.

Closed Rooms - A user can join only if he/she receives an invitation from the organizer.

Now, inside a room there are 3 areas namely stage, speakers, and listeners. The organizer can invite a user to the stage to become a speaker. It can also mute users and remove them as speakers.

If a listener wants to speak then he/she can click on the “raise hand” icon, but it depends on the room creator to allow it or not. If you want to leave the room, you need to click on “leave quietly” or the peace emoji.

Users can schedule a conversation event by giving the event name, start date, and start time. They can also mention co-hosts to control the event. Whenever an event is created it is shown in the “Bulletin” section which is under the “calendar” section . This section lists all the upcoming events and users can set an alert by clicking the bell icon.

Club is a place where a user community often meets to converse on their topic of interest. There are many clubs you can follow which are on various topics. If a user is active and has created at least 3 rooms then only the user can create a club.

Clubhouse’s homepage shows you ongoing chat rooms based on the people, clubs, and topics you follow. On this page, there is a ‘magnifying glass’ icon which when clicked takes you to the explore page. Here, you can browse & search for people, clubs, and topics based on your interests.

The Creator First feature helps creators or influencers build their audience and monetize their content via rooms. This monetization is to be done via the Clubhouse Payments feature (in development). Here, attendees can send money/fees online to the creator.

Now, let's have a look at some of the Clubhouse App FAQs and their answers.

Many Clubhouse enthusiasts in India are searching for How to Change Username in Clubhouse App? Well, this can be done in the usual way you do in other social networking apps. Although, the important thing to note here is that once you change your username, it's final, and can’t be changed again. Thus, you get only 1 chance to change your username in the Clubhouse App.

Follow the below steps to add Instagram to the Clubhouse App.

• Users need to go in their profile section
• click on “Add Instagram” or “Add Twitter”
• Now, they need to paste their account link

If your friends are on the Clubhouse app then you can request them for an invite link. Otherwise, you can create your username on the app and wait for the app to notify you to join when there is availability. There are also many Telegram channels offering paid Clubhouse App invites, but beware of fraudsters. A Clubhouse active user can only send 2 invitees and this count increases based on his contributions on this platform.

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