Clubhouse postmortem: no $10B bid, Twitter shipped Spaces and the category cooled
adarshsolanki · x · 2026-09-17
In a debate on whether social apps win on tech or mindshare, developer adarshsolanki revisits Clubhouse: the invite-only SF app rose because everyone was on it, not unique tech; Twitter shipped Spaces instead of a reported $10B acquisition, features got copied and the category cooled. ivanbezdomny counters that Facebook also started as a bare-bones campus app but evolved.
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