Facebook on Wednesday has taken its first public beta test of Hotline – a web-based Q&A platform that seems to have been dreamed up as the platform’s answer the current voice chat program rage.
More specifically, Hotline is designed to function as a kind of love child between Instagram Live and Clubhouse, TechCrunch reports: Creators will address an audience of users, who can then respond by asking questions with text or audio. Unlike clubhouse – which is strictly a audio platform only – Help point users will have the option to turn on their cameras during events, and adds a visual element to an otherwise voice-dominated experience.
Hotline is currently being developed by The NPE team from Facebook, which handles experimental app development within the company, is led by Eric Hazzard, the positive-focused Q&A app tbh that Facebook akkbefore turning the hotline.
A public live stream of the app’s feature on Wednesday was led by real estate investor Nick Huber, who was talking about industrial real estate as a second income stream – which should give you a reasonable idea exactly what type ‘creators” Hotline will try to call only once it is live. Close observers of the stream will noticed that Hotline’s interface looks a lot like Clubhouse’s, through the speaker’s icon is located above or on an “audience”, populated by listeners whose profiles appear below the live stream (on the desktop version, the audience is on the side).
Where the Clubhouse app differs is its functionality for ‘audience’ members, who will see the questions they ask in the list at the top of the stream, after which other users can choose vote or tune. The creator also has the option to attracts listeners to the “deere ” area to connect them back and forth, which would be something closer to Zoom in nature than the only sound fathers.
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Facebook declined to offer specific details about the launch date for Hotline in a statement on Wednesday, but said developers did. encouraged to see how new multimedia features and formats “continue to help people build and build a community.”
“With Hotline, we hope to understand how interactive, lively multimedia questions and queries can help people learn from experts in areas such as professional skills, just as it helps experts build their businesses,” Facebook said. spokesman said.