Facebook launches Clubhouse-like Q&A platform ‘Hotline’

Facebook has also joined the bandwagon of Clubhouse-like products with its new experimental app ‘Hotline’. It’s a Clubhouse-like Q&A platform with support for live-streaming launched by Facebook’s experimental app team, NPE. Facebook has been spotted testing new features like Clubhouse but Hotline is going to be different, TechCrunch reported.

Hotline by Facebook has the core functioning like Clubhouse but it differs as it allows hosts to use video as well. Hosts can also schedule Q&A presentations which are more meeting-like than Clubhouse where it’s more casual. Hotline like other video conferencing platforms allows hosts to record their sessions, and in both audio and video formats.

Q&A is the core feature of Hotline and how the platform works. The host receives questions via text which they answer during the sessions. As for the viewers, they react using emojis, and also upvote questions they want answered by the host.