According to news on April 8th, the NPE team of the experimental application development department of the social media platform Facebook released a new interview platform earlier on Wednesday local time. It borrows the concept of the recently popular audio social network Clubhouse but adds a small amount of real-time streams. Media elements.
According to reports, this brand-new interview platform, called Hotline, made its debut on an interview show with investor Nick Huber earlier in the day. The related websites of the Hotline service are now officially launched, allowing users to log in via Twitter, but currently, there is only a waiting feature and a tool for applying to host their own programs. According to reports, Facebook has completed some design work for Hotline’s mobile application, but it has not yet been launched.
According to reports, as early as February this year, there was news that Facebook was developing its own Clubhouse, and the development team of the video chat platform Messenger Rooms was studying products that could compete with Clubhouse.
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However, it is said that Hotline is different from Facebook’s competing product. Twitter is also publicly testing its own alternative product Spaces, which puts more pressure on Clubhouse’s future business. Earlier this week, there were rumors that Clubhouse will conduct a new round of financing, with a valuation of up to 4 billion U.S. dollars.
It is reported that Hotline works differently from Clubhouse and Spaces. This app allows the host to use video for more formal speeches and has a built-in Q&A session, instead of just audio conversations like Clubhouse. According to the report, Hotline also allows the host to record the content of the session in both audio and video formats.
Hotline’s core interview feature allows the host to answer questions raised by the audience via text messages, and the audience can also vote to determine the questions they want to ask, and then use emoticons to respond to the ongoing conversation.
The host can also bring someone from the audience to the virtual stage, ask questions on the spot, and possibly have a longer conversation. In this way, the design of the Hotline program looks more like a combination of blogs and Twitch streaming media, and viewers can freely express their opinions, but the control of the conversation is still firmly in the hands of the host.
The Hotline project is led by Erik Hazard. In 2017, he joined Facebook after his anonymous-like app “tbh” was acquired. Although Hazzard successfully attracted millions of users to log on to the platform to use the anonymous-like function, Facebook later closed tbh. However, as a member of the NPE team, Hazzard’s expertise in developing new mobile experiences can be deployed. The NPE team has released music production applications such as Collab and Bars in the past.
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