Did Clubhouse leak its own potential private messaging feature? It seems so

Clubhouse has solely mentioned that it routinely exams and explores potential options.

Clubhouse: Is audio chat platform Clubhouse shifting away from providing an audio-only expertise? Clubhouse, which was launched final yr, created a rage earlier this yr amongst social media fans and despatched many alternative corporations, together with Fb and Twitter, right into a frenzy to create options. Nonetheless, now, it looks as if the platform could be trying to develop past providing solely dwell audio experiences. The hypothesis is predicated on a leak by Clubhouse itself. Clubhouse by chance launched a model of the app to a few of its customers final week that contained a messaging characteristic known as Backchannel.

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A number of tweets have been posted by the customers on Friday displaying the characteristic, and evidently Backchannel is supposed for customers to textual content as an alternative of interacting through audio. What’s extra is that the characteristic had not been listed or indicated in any manner within the launch notes of the app’s model. Furthermore, the characteristic that had been rolled out additionally gave the impression to be unfinished. Whereas it’s unknown how lengthy the characteristic was out amongst the viewers with out anyone noticing it, the characteristic has been rolled again, in a rush nonetheless, by Clubhouse.

Clubhouse has solely mentioned that it routinely exams and explores potential options, indicating that the characteristic may or may not make it formally to the app in due time.

How many individuals truly had entry to the leaked characteristic can also be unknown, since there was not a giant window of time between Backchannel being broadly talked about on social media and it being revoked by Clubhouse. Which means with out affirmation from the corporate, there is no such thing as a manner to determine if the characteristic had been rolled out to many customers and was solely noticed by some who occurred to open the app on the time, or if it was rolled out as a part of a beta testing.