According to the report of The Verge, we can know Facebook is getting ready to launch a standalone group video chat app called Bonfire that may resemble Houseparty. Get more details in the following contents. And if you are looking for the best app rank boosting service site, we can be a good choice.

Houseparty comes from Life On Air, the folks who brought you the original livestreaming app Meerkat, which was cloned into Periscope. Having launched without a major global announcement around June, it grew steadily to over a million users by November 2016 and is popular among teens. Facebook's effort is said to offer near-identical functionality for starting group FaceTime-style calls instantly.

Until November 2016 Houseparty had 1.2 million usersspending 20 million minutes a day using it. Few competitive threats are as worrisome as a new social network growing quickly among teenagers for Facebook. Thus the company first tried to acquire Snapchat, and, once rebuffed, invested heavily in cloning its most distinctive features. Houseparty's continued growth — it is currently a top 200 app in Apple's US App Store, according to market research firm App Annie — all but guaranteed Facebook would explore copying it.

Facebook's move comes two years after Life On Air, which had helped usher in a new era of live broadcasting with its app Meerkat, pivoted to group video chat. The company's founder, Ben Rubin, observed that most people never broadcasted more than a handful of times — whether on Meerkat or its eventual competitors, Facebook Live and Twitter-owned Periscope. And so Rubin and his team built Houseparty, which notifies a user's friends whenever they have the app open, inviting them to hang out virtually on their smartphones. 

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