The American site Bloomberg News, devoted to the economy and to the finance, reveals that Twitter was in negotiations to acquire the very young audio chat social network Clubhouse, launched in April 2020. The discussions were unsuccessful and the competition is organized to offer similar applications.
3.4 billion euros.
This is, once the dollar-euro conversion has been made, the sum that Twitter offered to the creators of the social network Clubhouse to buy back its application.
The American site
Bloomberg News
, devoted to the economy and to finance, reveals that the social network with the little bird has put 4 billion euros on the table to acquire its very young competitor of audio chat rooms.
But the negotiations were unsuccessful.
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Facebook and Twitter strike back
It is not known why Twitter ultimately did not acquire Clubhouse, nor which of the two social networks ended the discussions.
Clubhouse, valued on January 21, 2021 at one billion dollars, has in any case well retained the amount of Twitter's offer.
The very young social network, launched in April 2021, is currently organizing a fundraiser and hopes to reach $ 4 billion.
Faced with the growing success of Twitter, Facebook is currently testing a new application, Hotline, which is supposed to compete with Clubhouse.
For its part, Twitter is working on a feature that would be in all points similar to the application that it could not acquire.