Clubhouse — the company that was making headline just a few month back for drawingmajor celebrities(andElon Musk)—seems to have reached a tipping point . In April , the app reach a sublime total of 922,000 downloads , new inquiry found , a sharp downturn after bringing in gazillion of new user just a month to begin with .
These turn come from the analytics business firm SensorTower , which had previouslypointed outthat the app ’s been on a downward incline for months . In January , Clubhouse pip 2 million downloads . In February , the app shot past 9.5 million downloads but dipped back down to about 2.7 million in March , harmonize to the firm ’s count . Now it ’s fallen short of a million downloads per month for April , a low that we have n’t seen since December of last year .
There are all sorts of cause those numbers might be on the decline . Some havetheorizedthat the sound - only app , which remains exclusively for iOS , was a smash hit over the pandemic simply because so many of us were famish for conversation with other people . With inoculation numbersskyrocketingacross the U.S. , and the great unwashed actuallybeginning to leavetheir houses for the first meter in god - knows - how - long , there ’s a fortune that Clubhouse is just a pandemic - era rage . There ’s also the fact that high-pitched - profile competitors like Facebook , Twitter , and Spotify havecollectively jumpedonto the social audio train in an attempt to court Clubhouse ’s user base . On Monday , for example , Twitterformally wrap outits own Clubhouse competitor , Spaces , to all Android and iOS users who have 600 following or more .
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Clubhouse , in the meantime , has been working on courting those users back . The companyannouncedon Sunday that the company is testing an Android version of its app with a smattering of “ well-disposed quizzer ” outside the company . Even though there is n’t a mode for the broad Android community to sign up for this app right now , Clubhouse explained in itsrelease notesthat it project to receive these users to the program “ over the coming weeks . ”
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