If you opened your phone this morning to see an update to the Twitter app, you may have been excited – and then confused – to see an ad for Twitter Spaces, the sounding rooms that the social network recently launched to compete with the similar Clubhouse app. “Suggest Space,” says the iOS update, promising that “Now you can tweet and talk.”
But while you will not find the ability to create a new space unless you are one of a select few, the company now says it will launch Spaces for Everyone next month.
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Amusing we heard the news in a Twitter Space itself, offered by the company. Twitter’s plans have not been set in stone, but the bottom line is that they are trying to get the product in a state where someone can host a Twitter Space from April. April is the goal. Meanwhile, users on both iOS and Android can both participate and chat in existing spaces.
Twitter Spaces is just one of a series of new features announced by the typical feature-packed company over the past few months, and we had an extensive interview with Twitter Product Manager Kayvon Beykpour, where he discusses the entire series, including the Twitter and Instagram-like disappearing Twitter Fleets from the company, and Super Follows where you can pay to subscribe to extra Twitter content from your favorite creators – a business that reminds us of platforms like Substack and OnlyFans.