Wednesday on Facebook made its first public beta test of Hotline – a web-based question and answer platform that seems to have been imagined as the answer to the platform the current voice chat application mania.
More specifically, Hotline is designed to function as a kind of childish love between Instagram Live and Clubhouse, TechCrunch reports: The creators are aimed at an audience of users, who will then be able to answer questions with text or audio. Unlike Clubhouse, which is strictly one audio only platform – Direct line users will they have the option to turn on the cameras during events, adding a visual element to a voice-dominated experience.
The hotline is currently being developed by Facebook’s NPE team, which is in charge of experimental application development within the company, and is being led per Eric Hazzard, who created the file application of questions and answers focused on the positivity that acq of Facebookbefore pivoting the hotline.
A the public live stream of the app’s functionality on Wednesday was led by real estate investor Nick Huber, of whom he spoke industrial real estate as a second stream of income, which should give you a good idea exactly what kind “creators” The hotline will try to connect once it is active. Close observers of the stream will do so I noticed that the Hotline interface is very similar to the Clubhouse, in the speaker icon is located on or riding an “audience,” which is filled with listeners whose profiles appear below the live stream (in the desktop version, the audience is off the side).
The difference between the app and the Clubhouse is its functionality for “audience” members, who will see the questions they ask in the list at the top of the board that other users can choose from. positive or negative vote. The creator will also have the option to do so drag listeners to thedeerand ” to join it, it will be something closer to Zoom in nature than its audio-only ancestors.
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In a statement on Wednesday, Facebook declined to provide specific details on the release date of Hotline, but said developers have been excited to see how the new multimedia features work and formats “continue to help people connect and create community.”
“With the Hotline, we look forward to understanding how live and interactive multimedia questions and answers can help people learn from experts in areas such as professional skills, just as it helps these experts build their businesses.” , a Facebook said the spokesman.