Users of the live streaming platform can only invite a limited number of friends, so people had to pay for it.
The surprising conversation that technology entrepreneur Elon Musk and co-founder of online brokerage application Robinhood, Vlad Tenev, had this Sunday at Clubhouse triggered the number of new users in this live audio social network, Reuters reported Wednesday.
The conversation between Musk and Tenev, which took place during a regular event of ‘The Good Time Show’ program, helped put the platform at the top of the starting tables, sparking a fight between netizens for invitations to the exclusive service.
The demand for invitations to the service has grown so much that a market for it has even emerged on platforms such as Reddit, eBay or Craigslist, as Clubhouse users can only invite a limited number of friends during their pre-launch period.
Fearful investors
In fact, invitations to the platform are sold in China on Idle Fish, the second-hand market of e-commerce company Alibaba, while in Japan investors, technology workers and the media have “entered” the market.
While it’s only available for Apple iPhones, the live audio application has gathered from Tuesday 3.6 million installations worldwide, nearly a third in the past six days, according to data analytics company Sensor Tower.
Investors were so eager to participate in the success of the social network that this Monday they increased the shares of Clubhouse Media Group by 117%, a company unrelated to the platform Musk and Tenev used for their live chat.
Business opportunity?
For its part, the Chinese technology company Agora, which is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange, saw its shares grow by 30% thanks to the circulation of news that suggested it as a possible partner of Clubhouse, worth about one billion euros. dollars based on the latest round of funding from the San Francisco-based company.
Some netizens criticized that the conversation between Musk and Tenev was limited. According to the British agency, Clubhouse has the ambition to submit the application widely available and offers business opportunities based on subscriptions or tickets to events such as those in which the entrepreneurs participated.
A spokeswoman for the app, which currently has only a dozen employees, said they have already kicked out several users for violating the rules regarding racism, hate speech, sexism and abuse, while investing in tools to prevent this type. to detect and prevent behavior.
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