Clubhouse launches on Android in India on 21 May

NEW DELHI: Audio-only social platform, Clubhouse, will probably be obtainable for Android customers in India from May 21, the corporate introduced in a tweet on Sunday. The firm, which began rolling out Android assist for customers within the US final week, stated it will likely be including the remainder of the world by the tip of this week. Russia, Japan and Brazil will get Android assist by Tuesday, Clubhouse stated.

“Our plan over the following few weeks is to gather suggestions from the neighborhood, repair any points we see and work so as to add a number of ultimate options like funds and membership creation earlier than rolling it out extra broadly,” the company said in a blog post on 9 May. It had also said that the platform’s invite-only model will continue for the time being. “As we head into the summer and continue to scale out the backend, we plan to begin opening up even further, welcoming millions more people in from the iOS waitlist, expanding language support, and adding more accessibility features, so that people worldwide can experience Clubhouse in a way that feels native to them,” the corporate stated.

Clubhouse’s Android model has been within the works for over a yr now, with the platform having been unique to iOS to this point. However, the stress would have mounted with rival Twitter bringing its competing Spaces platform to Android in March, and Facebook asserting a bunch of audio-focused options that it will likely be including over the remainder of the yr. Clubhouse’s mannequin can be being copied in India, with homegrown brief video platform Chingari launching its personal Fireside app that replicates Clubhouse.

Clubhouse’s reputation has additionally fueled total curiosity within the audio area, with the corporate rising to a billion greenback valuation final yr. Clubhouse raised a Series C funding spherical final month, which took its valuation to $4 billion, tripling the corporate’s worth from its Series B spherical again in January.

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