The social media company that brought you the Fleet it began tests its prey audio-0nly chat rooms Thursday. In a thread announcing private beta testing, Twitter told small a group of users would be able to create Spaces, as the feature is being called, and invite any of their followers or other Twitter users to join.
When it first launched the feature last month, Twitter said it would prioritize marginalized communities, also known as groups that they are more likely to be abused and harassed on their platform, while rolling access to Spaces. With the creator of a space that controls who joins and who is expelled or silenced, the hope is that it will allow for more intimate discussions than that of Twitter character limits allow it and cultivate the atmosphere of “A well-organized dinner.”
“The human voice can bring a layer of connectivity to Twitter through the emotion, nuance and empathy that is often lost in the text. the company he tweeted. “WI see it with voice tweets and voice DMs. Sometimes 280 is not enough and the voice gives people another way to join the conversation. Our new experiment brings people together to connect directly in an intimate and conversational space. “
Select uUsers can create a sliding space to the right on the fleet creation screen or pressing and holding the key cOmpose button at the bottom right of the main screen. Twitter says it will be released on a few hundred iOS devices users over the next few weeks. Additional features being tested include live voice transcripts, being able to share tweets on Spaces, and “hand gesture-like reactions.”
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Content mmoderation seems to be important focused on Spaces, which makes sense given the rocky start that audio-based social media has had. Clubhouse, a voice chat for invitations only room application, is still in the testing phase, but has already reached the headlines of several publications expiration of moderation, including harassment a New York Times Reporter i accusations that anti-Semitism went unmarked on the platform.