[seanhunter]

My hypothesis is that a lot of the early hype was down to people who liked the idea of being part of an exclusive club but didn't really like when everyone else was also part of the club.

Then twitter launched "Spaces", meaning people could have a similar experience to clubhouse without building yet another social network.

[mikeryan]

I don’t think its just exclusivity, in the sense that “I’m one of the cool kids”. If the Clubhouse concept was based on conversations amongst a peer group then you need some exclusivity, just to have a manage the number of people in the conversation. Once anyone could join and you had more then maybe 10 people and the conversation aspect become too hard to manage and everything just basically became a podcast.

[scyzoryk_xyz]

The Twitter Spaces move reminds me of the Instagram Stories move. As in life, upstarts with killer new features sometimes manage to take only a temporary hold and are easy to rip off if they don't manage to protect what they've got.

[nebula8804]

Did Twitter Spaces actually take off? My only experience of it was super early on when a celebrity I really likes joined a Twitter space to promote her new project but in an effort to record the conversation, I discovered that the iPad was not supported at the time. :/

Since then I have not heard a peep about Twitter Spaces.

[gutitout]

This is absolutely correct. They build a nice map of everyone’s contacts and that was the value.

[paulcole]

I’m always intrigued when I see someone make such a bold prediction. What did you base it on?