Twitter Spaces arrives on Android, 'Stop Asian Hate' campaign raises $50,000, Super Follows becoming the New Era of Social Media
Elon Musk fails to follow up with Putin, Anti-racist activists take a stand, NYU Girls Roast Tech Guys go viral, future of CH growing beyond Silicon Valley
Welcome to this week's news, commentary, discussion and upcoming events on Clubhouse and elsewhere.
News & Commentary
Food industry professionals raise $50,000 on Clubhouse to 'Stop Asian Hate' and support restaurants that have been affected the by increasing racism towards Asians
Will Oremus believes that products like Clubhouse and Twitter’s “Super Follows” offer a new kind of engagement that will be the New Era of Social Media.
Anti-racist activists on Clubhouse put Bret Weinstein through a 'struggle session' while in a room called "Is Clubhouse obsessed with 'Woke-ism?'" says The Post Millennial.
Putin claims that Elon Musk’s Clubhouse invite is a ‘misunderstanding’ after Musk failed to follow up on the offer.
The Clubhouse Chronicles: 'NYU Girls Roast Tech Guys' goes viral with their Shoot Your Shot room aimed at helping people find a potential love interest in the audience.
Bloomberg believes Clubhouse faces new challenge of growing beyond Silicon Valley.
TechCrunch announces that Twitter Spaces arrives on Android ahead of Clubhouse.
The Clubhouse Chronicles covers NFTs, 3LAU's $11.7m album, Beeple's $6.6m painting, NBA TopShots, and CryptoKitties.
The New York Times: A new company called Audio Collective has launched to help build businesses on Clubhouse as brands rush to leverage the platform.
Paul Greenberg discusses his thoughts on all things Clubhouse and the rise of social audio.
Mayor Tubbs along with others discuss findings and answers questions about the Stockton pilot study for Basic Income during their Clubhouse room on March 3rd.
Clubhouse Release Notes & Town Hall Updates
The latest release took place on Friday March 5th and included the ability to create a club directly in the app, switch to higher quality audio, fix for cross-border invites, Improvements to troll reporting, better follow suggestions for international users, and more. Read the full release notes here.
During Sunday’s Townhall, co-founders Rohan and Paul announced that CH priorities fall into four buckets: More people on the app (e.g. Android, localization), performance and scaling, discovery (finding people, rooms in feed), and room experience. They updated the community guidelines, specifically details on how account suspensions work. CH privacy policy got an update to eliminate confusion. Check out this Twitter thread to learn more. A more in depth analysis can be found in the Clubhouse Tea newsletter and a full transcript of the town hall can be found here.
Video of the week
How to guides, tools, tips & tricks
Clubhouse Extra helps brands utilize Clubhouse to talk, listen, and connect with their audience in an authentic way.
Expand your reach, amplify your voice, sign up to do a club event with Clubhouse Clubs.
ClubhouseRanking is the world's first ranking and analytics platform for Clubhouse. It includes a ranking of the most popular users, rooms, and events on Clubhouse.
People of Clubhouse shows you the most influential people on Clubhouse. Who you follow is one of the most important aspects of the Clubhouse app. The Rooms that are shown to users are based on which people and Clubs you choose to follow.
Modaction is a funny soundboard for Clubhouse and other social networks. Clubhouse and other social platforms moderator sounds app provides the best sound effects for moderators.
ClubSearch helps you quickly find Clubhouse rooms about popular topics by searching for keywords. For rooms that haven't started yet, you can add them to your calendar.
Find Design, Tech, Startup related Clubhouse rooms with ease with Clubroom.
Do you want Twitter Spaces’ best upcoming audio conversations sent to your inbox? Sign up at UpcomingSpaces
Explore events, rooms, clubs and users on Clubhouse with Clubh.One.
Clubhouser lets you search of the great profiles on Clubhouse and filter for topics, interests, age, gender, country and more.
Clubhouse Borders helps users create astonishing and bright Clubhouse profile images with just a few clicks!
Have you seen that people are starting to change their profile picture in Clubhouse saying that they are in radio mode or listening? That is exactly what Clubhouse Tools does.
The Housely Club app provides event hosts with a solution for scheduling and organizing club events, in an easy-to-use way.
Club+ will help you stay up to date with your current followers. Grow your social presence with few taps!
Planning a Clubhouse meetup soon? Then you need to invite to your room as many people as possible. Clubhouse Cards helps you do it via social media: Twitter, Telegram, and Instagram. Put your content on the main artboard and get cards for all three platforms at once.
Notable people who joined Clubhouse this week
Stewart Brand (@stewartbrand): Co-founder of Revive & Restore, The Long Now Foundation, The WELL, Global Business Network, and Founder/Editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Scott Lewis (@scott_lew_is): Co-Founder of Concourse Open Community. Concourse is an open community of builders, enthusiasts and researchers working towards a free, bountiful and decentralized future for all humans.
Malcolm McDowell (@oluckymalc): English actor known for a number of movies such as A Clockwork Orange, Halloween, Star Trek Generations, Bombshell, Easy A and so much more.
Nouriel Roubini (@nourielroubini): American economist that teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business and is chairman of Roubini Macro Associates LLC, an economic consultancy firm.
Dean Kamen (@deankamen): American engineer, inventor, and businessman. Known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers.
Recommended events coming up on Clubhouse
We realize that it's impossible to curate events on Clubhouse as every user has their own preferences. Additionally some of the best events are not scheduled and are created ad-hoc. With all that said, the list below includes what stood out for us and should appeal to a wide range of people. If there's anything you think we missed out, feel free to contact us.
MON Mar 8, 2 PM PST
International Women’s Day Chat: Ladies Who Create
From COMMUNITY
w/ Molly DeWolf Swenson 💃🏼, Masoma Imasogie, Amanda de Cadenet, stephanie saffa simon, Adrienne Houghton, Dara Treseder
Community x Clubhouse present: “Continuing The Conversation” Series. Pulling back the curtain for a no-holds-barred discussion on what it means to be successful as a female creator today.
MON Mar 8, 5:30 PM PST
Dish on Disability: International Women’s Day
From THE 15%
w/ Anna Pakman, Sylvia Longmire, Adriana Mallozzi, Thomas Reid, Maayan Ziv, Xian Horn, Cory Lee Woodard, Lachi Music, Diego Mariscal, Stephanie Thomas, Tiffany Yu, Andrea Jennings
Come celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month with the 15%! We’ll be talking to and about fierce women who #ChoosetoChallenge by advocating for change in the disabled community.
TUE Mar 9, 2 PM PST
Travel Talk Tuesday - Coolest Hotels
From HOSPITALITY & MORE
w/ Lainey Melnick, Kaylie Holley, Saira Rasheed, Kimberly Corbin, Aakash, Azzi Kashani, AllwaysLaced
Come talk about the coolest hotels in the world - underwater, made of ice, cliffs, castles, design, style, what makes hotels unique. Come chat with us.
TUE Mar 9, 6 PM PST
Skincare Startups with Charlotte Palermino
From STARTUP CLUB
w/ Denise Hewett, Charlotte Palermino
TikTok sensation and Founder of Dieux Skin, Charlotte Palermino, will tell us what it takes to build a skincare company, wear 20 hats, and still have perfect skin.
WED Mar 10, 2 PM PST
Mental Health’s Impact on Gen Z
w/ Michael Gruen, Josh Richards, Kenneth Cole, Marc Randolph, Marshall Sandman, Griffin Johnson
Connect with Kenneth Cole (fashion designer), Marc Randolph (co-founder of Netflix), Sean Rad (co-founder of Tinder), Zak Williams (CEO of PYM), and social media phenoms Josh Richards & Griffin Johnson as they dive deep into the complexities of mental health in today's landscape while working in fast-paced and demanding industries such as fashion and entertainment.
WED Mar 10, 5 PM PST
How to reduce anti-Asian violence in SF
w/ Bilal Mahmood, Steven Buss, Peipei Yu, Joel Engardio
Meet Nancy Tung, Kamala Harris’ Assistant District Attorney, for a discussion on how we can reduce anti-Asian violence in San Francisco.
THU Mar 11, 9 AM PST
Confronting Impostor Fears as an International Scholar
From ALL THINGS ACADEMIA
w/ Roshni Rao, Ph.D, Giulia Baldini, Safiya LaGillé, Omkar Bhatavdekar, Smiti Nathan PhD, David Mendes, Ph.D
In this conversation, International scholars come together to define and discuss what impostor fears look like. Share stories & offer practical tips to confront the feeling of not belonging.
THU Mar 11, 4 PM PST
Social Media Surveillance using AI
From DATA AND AI
w/ Muazma Zahid, Sean Young, PhD
Q/A with Sean Young, PhD, behavioural psychologist, AI researcher & Dir. of UC Institute for Prediction Tech discusses research using AI for health & safety, including ethical & implementation issues
FRI Mar 12, 12 PM PST
SUSTAINABLE BRANDS - Fri’s at 12pm PST
w/ Juli Schulz, Sue Choi, Ardilla Deneys, Tiffany Paige
Sustainable Brands Talk hosted by 🌱Green with Tiffany & 🌱EcoJuli w/ 2 sustainable businesses ➡️Ardilla Deneys, CEO Pollima and ➡️Sue Choi, Founder, Ecoist. Talk ⭕️circular design, ♻️sustainable materials! 👯♀️
FRI Mar 12, 2 PM PST
Women in Podcasting Happy Hour ClubPod
From CLUBPOD
w/ Jennifer Henczel, Steve Olsher
Podcasters & Expert Guests are invited! Tell us about you and your podcast or expertise. It's a time to connect, collaborate and celebrate! Ask questions. Let's grow our podcasts together!
SAT Mar 13, 11 AM PST
How do we change the perception of cannabis? 🍃👁💡🎉
From BLACK DRAGON BREAKFAST CLUB
w/ Tsehaitu “sayhitu”, Calan Ma’lyn, Dashayna Brown
Our knowledge of cannabis and how we perceive the plant shapes our lives and impacts the lives of others. How might changing the perception of cannabis impact you or your loved ones.
SAT Mar 13, 5 PM PST
The Elite Athlete’s Brain: Mental Health & Neuroscience
From PRO SPORTS NETWORK
w/ Lisa Bonta Sumii, KANDI CONDA, Christa Pryor
This conversation has now become a regular series. The depth of perspective, the heart, the insights, and the expertise that everyone brings to this discussion is so inspiring!
SUN Mar 14, 12 PM PDT
Youth Activism on Climate featuring Sunrise
From CLIMATE CRISIS CLUB
w/ Sweta Chakraborty, Jillian Semaan, Veekas Ashoka, WordNinja, Peter McKillop
Join us for a candid discussion with the next generation on the necessity of youth activism to confront the climate crisis.
SUN Mar 14, 2 PM PDT
Setting Goals and Increase Productivity For The New Week
From 🤝 COACHES, CONSULTANTS & COURSE CREATORS CONNECT 🤝
w/ Camille Dangerfield, Chet Hirani
What are your goals? How do you increase productivity? What are you setting for the week? Let’s discuss & discover for both your personal life or business.
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