Clubhouse launches its DM feature Backchannel
Backchannel, Clubhouse's messaging feature | Image: Clubhouse Now, you can slide into people's Clubhouse DMs. The social audio company is launching its direct messaging feature, Backchannel, today for all users on both iOS and Android. For now, users can chat one-on-one, in groups, and send links. They cannot yet send images or videos, but a spokesperson says that functionality is coming, along with a few other features." There will also be an optional secondary inbox where message requests will live.
The functionality is designed to help moderators chat among themselves during an active room; let people connect after an event; and broadly, foster text conversations that otherwise would have to take place in a separate app. We can't say this development is much of a surprise, though: Clubhouse a...