Facebook is shutting down its housing clone, Bonfire application

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Facebook confirmed the shutdown in a statement 

Bonfire is a clone of Houseparty, created by Life On Air 

Life On Air had created Meerkat also, replicated by Facebook and Twitter

Facebook has chosen to shut down Bonfire, its clone of the group video chat app called Houseparty, that goes about as a virtual joint for its clients in a group.

As indicated by a report by The Verge on Friday, the clone app called Bonfire which Facebook began testing in 2017 will quit working this month. It had been propelled for Android that year.

"In May, we'll end support for the Bonfire tests. We'll join components of what we realized into other present and future items," Facebook said in a statement.

The app began testing in Denmark in the fall of 2017, after the prominence of House party - a synchronous group video chat in which members would open it up to see who else was at that point on the web and spend time with them on the web. By November 2016, it had 1.2 million clients spending a sum of 20 million minutes on it day by day.

Facebook prominently replicated House party from engineer Life On Air, which had helped make live communicating well known on its app Meerkat before being compelled to shut down when mammoths Facebook and Twitter turned out with their very own renditions, Live and Periscope, individually.

Facebook has been adding group video chat highlights to its different stages like Instagram and Messenger.

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