All with 600 followers or more now has access to Twitter Spaces, a feature that enables users to engage in live audio chats. Twitter Spaces are first made available to a limited input community in December 2020. It’s unclear what requirements were used to choose people for the test community+ but Twitter claims that millions of people had access prior to today. All Twitter accounts with 600 or more followers are now receiving an updated version of Spaces. Based on input from the first community of users, changes have been made. More purple bubbles will appear at the top of people’s Twitter timelines from now on showing when other users are hosting or engaging in a live audio chat. By tapping on the purple bubble, everyone regardless of how many followers they have can become a listener in a Room.
The listener may respond with emojis and participate via text chat. They may also ask to talk in the chat room. In theory, this means that anyone with a speaker status on Spaces can transmit their speech. A speaker can also add pinned tweets to the Room, allow captions, and share the space on their timeline so that followers can enter by tapping a connection. Speakers have more rights than viewers, but it is the host who has the most. Space hosts can monitor who speaks at any given time, alter the topic of conversation and grant listeners speaker permissions. If they believe it is appropriate, hosts may even kick users out of a Room.
Other protections, such as the ability to report and ban other users are in place on Twitter Spaces. They won’t be able to participate in the whole conversation, though. Users that have been blocked by Space hosts are not allowed to enter. When anyone a user has blocked speaks in a Space they have entered, Twitter shows labels and alerts. Spaces will get new features such as the ability for hosts to silence all speakers at once and access to a new management page for easier hosting.
All with 600 followers or more now has access to Twitter Spaces, a feature that enables users to engage in live audio chats. Twitter Spaces are first made available to a limited input community in December 2020. It’s unclear what requirements were used to choose people for the test community+ but Twitter claims that millions of people had access prior to today. All Twitter accounts with 600 or more followers are now receiving an updated version of Spaces. Based on input from the first community of users, changes have been made. More purple bubbles will appear at the top of people’s Twitter timelines from now on showing when other users are hosting or engaging in a live audio chat. By tapping on the purple bubble, everyone regardless of how many followers they have can become a listener in a Room.
The listener may respond with emojis and participate via text chat. They may also ask to talk in the chat room. In theory, this means that anyone with a speaker status on Spaces can transmit their speech. A speaker can also add pinned tweets to the Room, allow captions, and share the space on their timeline so that followers can enter by tapping a connection. Speakers have more rights than viewers, but it is the host who has the most. Space hosts can monitor who speaks at any given time, alter the topic of conversation and grant listeners speaker permissions. If they believe it is appropriate, hosts may even kick users out of a Room.
Other protections, such as the ability to report and ban other users are in place on Twitter Spaces. They won’t be able to participate in the whole conversation, though. Users that have been blocked by Space hosts are not allowed to enter. When anyone a user has blocked speaks in a Space they have entered, Twitter shows labels and alerts. Spaces will get new features such as the ability for hosts to silence all speakers at once and access to a new management page for easier hosting.