Available as an iOS app since March 2020, Clubhouse describes itself as a “drop-in audio chat” platform.
What does this mean?
On opening the app, users – who have their own profiles, followers and followings, as on Twitter – can scroll through their homepage (pictured left) and opt to join different audio-based chats.
At the top of the home screen are upcoming meetings, or ‘rooms’, hosted by clubs that users follow.
On entering a room, users can listen in on the discussion and virtually raise their hand to ask to contribute to the discussion. Club hosts, often journalists, chair and moderate the discussions.
In the latest edition of Press Gazette’s Platform Profile series, we seek to explain why some large news groups remain absent from TikTok. We examine the pros and cons of the platform for publishers and share some tips from the Washington Post’s Jorgenson (video below).
What is TikTok?
In a couple of years, TikTok has grown from being an unknown entity outside of China into one of the world’s biggest social media platforms.
Originally known as Musical.ly, the app was rebranded as TikTok in 2018 after it was acquired by Beijing tech giant ByteDance. In China, the platform is known as Douyin and reportedly has 600m daily active users.
If you’ve ever spent hours taking screenshots of your online articles for fear they might be lost forever on the internet’s ever-changing tide, then Authory might be for you.
The platform goes beyond the results of simply searching your own name on Google, claiming to find every last article carrying a user’s byline that exists in cyberspace. Once captured the articles are protected even from the demise of the website on which they first appeared.
Authory continues to automatically update a user’s portfolio with their latest pieces and even offers a free subscription service so loyal readers will never miss out on new articles.