Facebook on Wednesday has conducted its first public beta test of Hotline – a web-based Q&A platform that looks like it was conceived as the platform’s answer the current voice chat app fad
More specific, Hotline is designed to function as a kind of lovechild between Instagram Live and Clubhouse, TechCrunch reports: Creators address an audience of users, who can then respond by asking questions with text or audio. Unlike club house – which is strictly one audio platform only – Hotline users will have the option to turn their cameras on during events, by adding a visual element to an otherwise voice-dominated experience.
Hotline is currently being developed by Facebook’s NPE team, which is involved in the company’s experimental app development, and is led through Eric Hazzard, that it positivity-oriented Q&A app tbh that Facebook acqbefore running the hotline
A public livestream of the app’s functionality on Wednesday led by real estate investor Nick Huber, who spoke about industrial real estate as a secondary income stream – which should give you a pretty good idea of exactly what kind makers The hotline will attempt to access the Internet as soon as it is live. Close observers of the flow will have noticed that Hotline’s interface is very similar to that of Clubhouse, namely the speaker’s icon sits on top of or straddles an “audience”, which is populated by listeners whose profiles appear below the live stream (on the desktop version, the audience is on the side).
Where the app differs from Clubhouse is its functionality for ‘audience’ members, who see the questions they ask appear in a list at the top of the stream for other users to choose from. vote up or downThe creator also has the option of attract listeners to the “deere “ area to accompany them back and forth, which will be slightly closer to Zoom in Nature than its audio-only predecessors.
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In a statement on Wednesday, Facebook declined to provide specific details about a launch date for Hotline, but said developers have been encouraged to see how new multimedia features and formats’keep helping people connect and build community.
“With Hotline, we hope to understand how interactive, live multimedia Q & As can help people learn from experts in areas such as professional skills, just as it helps experts build their businesses,” a Facebook said spokesman.