Everyone is running in pursuit of Clubhouse: after Facebook and Twitter now it seems to be Telegram’s turn, which is working on its own version of voice chat.
Even Telegram has fallen under the spell of voice rooms. Riding the success of Clubhouse, the app that in just over a year has managed to establish itself thanks to the introduction of real-time conversations between groups of users, even the messaging app has decided to integrate the feature for its users.
To follow the path of voice chats were Facebook, on Instagram, and Twitter with its new “Spaces”. The news of the upcoming integration of the rooms dedicated to voice chats in Telegram comes from the well-known site WABetainfo, a portal mainly dedicated to the news of the messaging system WhatsApp. WABetainfo has published some screenshots in which you can see the option that allows you to create rooms dedicated to conversations on Telegram. Although this is an absolute novelty for what is to all intents and purposes one of the most widely used messaging services in the world, it is certainly not the first case of emulation towards the main feature of Clubhouse.
Telegram, how will voice chats work
According to the first available information, then, Telegram may soon allow the creation of rooms for voice chats directly from the interface visible to channel managers. It will be enough to tap on the three-dot icon present in the group’s profile to select the “Start Voice Chat” item and start the room.
If the current numbers were to be respected, the introduction will allow a maximum of 200,000 users simultaneously, the maximum limit of participants in the groups, to follow the conversations. Similarly to what happens on Clubhouse, where, however, the participants are a maximum of 5,000, a system of moderators should help to keep under control the audio room, managing the interventions of the participants and blocking and expelling users if their behavior does not comply with the rules of the platform.
Nothing has yet been made known about the timing of release of the feature, for which we must wait for direct information from the Telegram team.
Telegram like Clubhouse? Here are its predecessors
As already mentioned Telegram is not the first app that pursues Clubhouse and thinks about voice chats: there are also Facebook and Twitter. If Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has already shown all its interest in the development of a product able to integrate with the chat already present on the platform, Twitter has already burned all the time creating Spaces, coming next April.
Thanks to a system of rooms borrowed from Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces should soon allow all users (the beta test phase is active for both iOS and Android users, although the latter can still take advantage of a limited number of features) to create virtual rooms and host multi-user audio chats, just like it already happens on the app that launched this trend that involves more and more users around the world.