Musk infected Russia: after his appeal to Putin, interest in the Clubhouse grew sharply

Clubhouse is a new social network for voice communication and online conferences, launched in April 2020 and quickly gained worldwide popularity, thanks in large part to SpaceX founder Elon Musk. For example, today the writer Sergey Minaev proudly announced that in his Clubhouse he “crossed the line” of 40 thousand subscribers.

According to the famous cartoonist Sergei Elkin, Clubhouse now ranks first among the free apps in the AppStore in terms of the number of downloads in Russia. According to experts, the service has more than 3 million users around the world, but in Russia this figure ranges from 20 to 50 thousand people.

The state is already concerned about this fact: the deputy chairman of the commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for the examination of socially significant bills and other legal initiatives, Artem Kiryanov, said that the Clubhouse must be taken under control in Russia, like the rest of social networks, however, certain difficulties may arise with this due to for its features. According to him, Roskomnadzor and law enforcement agencies must control the Clubhouse. It is also necessary to think over mechanisms for tracking and fixing what is happening in the application, Kiryanov said.

According to user reviews, it resembles a large radio studio, for different genres of talk radio. But in order to go to this radio station and take part in the role of a speaker, presenter or simply participating in a conversation, you do not need to go to any radio station or dial up somewhere, but simply press a button on your iPhone. And right there - the broadcast is on, and you can be on the air.

However, after downloading the application in the App Store, you won't be able to get into the Clubhouse just like that, you can enter only after receiving an invite (English: invitation), a kind of guarantee from the current members of the club. This can be done in three ways:

1. Find a guarantor yourself. Ask friends or acquaintances who can send you an invitation, however, the number of such invitations is limited.

2. Any user can invite you if they have your phone number in their contacts, and the number of such "invitations" is unlimited.

3. You can download the application by leaving a request for authorization in it. And it seems that after some time the system itself will prompt you to enter the application.

It is this "club" order that has caused rumors about the elitism of the service, and as a result - speculation with invites. It is known that in the services "Avito" and "Yula" there have already been advertisements for the sale of invitations to the Clubhouse at a price of 200 to 10 thousand rubles, writes Kommersant. Moreover, fraudsters have also joined in here. They "will ask to transfer money in exchange for an invite without guarantees of receiving an invitation", the newspaper experts warn.

In addition, for now, Clubhouse is only available to users of the App Store for iPhones, and it does not exist in the Android operating system store.According to experts, this fact encourages the sale of fakes, and they, in turn, can become a source of malware and collect information from the user's device.

Businessman Sergei Vasiliev has already tested the novelty and responded:

“Everything is quite technologically advanced, convenient and intuitive.

"Rooms", ie There are already many topics for discussion, and there are already many different speakers, and this will now grow like a snowball.

This new social network will not change, of course, the world, but something will definitely change.

This will radically change the role of yesterday's "talk" radio stations, they will become obsolete or will have to change quickly to match the level of the Clubhouse.

Just as bloggers, and especially popular video bloggers, changed the role of yesterday's media, becoming more popular and more influential media, so Clubhouse can radically rebuild the entire clearing of yesterday's broadcasting stations.

Why tune in to some kind of radio wave, where they will tell you about what, if you always have your iPhone at hand, and you can connect to listening to various topics at any second.

I think there will be a booth, but there will be a lot of quite worthy channels. Just like youtube. There are millions of slag channels, but among them there are thousands of quite interesting channels to which people subscribe to regularly watch and listen. It will be similar here. Their stars will appear, on which people will go. These stars will customize the moderation for themselves. In general, it is quite possible that they will cope.

Competition for the best speakers and moderators will surely begin here. They will gradually intercept someone else's audience and capture a new one. Everything as usual.

It will be an exciting battle for the audience, themes, ideas, as a result of which the world will change.

Old media will die and new ones will be born..."