Twitter has announced that it will shut down Fleets citing low usage. Fleets were originally launched in November of 2020 and were designed to compete with Instagram and Snapchat stories.
Facebook has launched Hotline, a question and answer-style app that combines the features found in the popular app Clubhouse along with Instagram Live features, into a public beta test.
Clubhouse has teamed up with Stripe to launch Clubhouse Payments, a monetization feature that will allow anyone to send money directly to speakers on the platform. Even better, 100 percent of the money sent via Clubhouse Payments will go to the selected creator.
Few companies are faster to react to new competition than Facebook and that continues to be the case with the announcement of "Live Rooms" for Instagram, a new feature that is a direct answer to Clubhouse.
Many photographers have had the same reaction that I did upon hearing about yet another new social media app hitting the radar: a yawn and a roll of the eyes. We have seen countless apps and image-sharing sites emerge with fanfare and then fail to gain traction in the crowded sphere of social media, and we feel pressed to carve out time for the platforms that we already use.
Clubhouse is a new social media app that may be of interest to photographers of all levels. Here's a photographer's look at the new social service.