No texts, photos and videos, everything is based on the sound rooms, so privacy is preserved. Clubhouse is a live audio platform where people come together to discuss a variety of topics. There are no comments or written messages – all interactions are voice-based and nothing is recorded. Unlike the more famous Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, the only usable content are therefore the soundtracks, a huge podcast container. To join, you must be at least 18 years old and have an iPhone.

An Android app is under development although it is not known when it will be released on the Play Store. As soon as you are inside, you arrive on a page where you can explore the different rooms created by the contacts. This section is organized according to the interests and people who follow you, indicated immediately after the registration phase. Admission, at least for now, is by invitation only and requires registration with your mobile number.

If you already know one of your contacts in the app, you can request to unblock access. Once accepted, by the will of the various organizers, we join the audience as a listener, with the microphone deactivated. Room moderators can intervene as they wish, just like each participant, by clicking on the icon to ‘raise your hand’, very similar to what happens on Zoom, Teams and Meet. Despite the figures cited by the company, the invitation system and the relatively young age of the app, which launched in April 2020, still make it a social network for a few. Yet it promises to eliminate, from the start, the privacy concerns that have plagued digital giants for some time.

In the last few hours alone, the Privacy Guarantor communicated, with a note on the organization’s website, that he had opened a case against Instagram and Facebook, after the one addressed to TikTok, following the death of a 10-year-old girl. due to still unclear circumstances. Designed in the midst of a pandemic by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, former employees of Pinterest and Google respectively, Clubhouse secured a loan of around $ 100 million from venture capital firm Andressen Horowitz, for a total valuation of more than $ 1 billion.