Facebook Reportedly Working on App For Live Group Movie Talk
Facebook Reportedly Working on App For Live Group Movie Talk
Facebook is believed to be working on a fresh standalone app for live group movie calls just like Google Hangouts.
A report from The Brink claimed that Facebook's fresh app draws logic, inspiration from technology start-up Life On Air's popular group movie talk app ‘Houseparty'. The app was recently demonstrated for employees and is being targeted for a fall release.
Facebook's fresh app is being now called Bonfire and details about it are sketchy. However, the social network's budge comes close at high-heeled shoes of launching Facebook Live.
Rumours suggest that Facebook Live was launched post the success of Life on Air's live broadcasting app Meerkat. Twitter also has a live broadcasting feature called Periscope which it acquired later.
‘Houseparty' is especially popular among teenagers and by November 2016, it had 1.Two million users spending a total of twenty million minutes on it daily. The app notifies a user's friends whenever they have the app open, inviting them to dangle out virtually on their smartphones.
According to the report, employees at Facebook were also recently shown an app called ‘Talk', designed to encourage junior people to communicate with their grandparents using movie talk.
This is also not the only concept that Facebook seems to be adapting. Earlier instances display Instagram copying Snapchat's features to an extent as well. Facebook has attempted to buy Snap Inc (parent company of Snapchat) but has met with failure in the past.