Clubhouse Has Already Defeated China’s Censorship
Are you on Clubhouse? Whether you are a member, an invite-seeker, or one of the many uninitiated, it is impossible to deny the surging popularity of the real-time voice meeting room application, Clubhouse.
Downloading the application does not come with discounted dinners or an excusal from green fees. But in the age of social media, Clubhouse membership is even more enviable: the platform allows its millions of members to listen to celebrities in real-time and to join with other members to speak on thousands of topics ranging from cooking to investing. Members can host chat rooms or drop in on rooms already created.
In early February, Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined the Clubhouse social media platform, which is owned by Agora, Inc. (API). And just as Musk’s tweets supporting Dogecoin and “Gamestonk” rallied many investors, many people also clamored to follow Musk onto Clubhouse.
During the first week of February, Clubhouse became the most downloaded app of the week in Apple’s app store in Japan and Taiwan. In Hong Kong, it was the second most downloaded. And in China, the app was becoming so popular that users were selling their invites for dozens of dollars.
