Twitter extends audio Spaces to accounts with more than 600 followers

The social network expanded its Spaces live audio experience, similar to that of the Clubhouse social network, so that users who have more than 600 followers on their profiles can organize new conversations.

Twitter Spaces was launched last year, but has so far only been available to a small number of users. This experience allows users to host audio conversations to which their followers are invited, who can join as listeners or request to participate.

Now, the ‘microblogging’ platform announced in a statement that it expands the number of people who can organize new conversations in Spaces, for profiles with 600 or more followers.

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“We are going to offer the possibility of creating a Space to all accounts with 600 or more followers on Twitter. Based on what we have learned so far, these accounts are likely to have a good experience generating live conversations, due to their existing audience, ”said the social network.

Before bringing the experience to all users, the platform claims to be “focused on learning more, making it easier to discover Spaces and helping people to enjoy them with large audiences.”

The company also announced other new features that will come to Spaces in the future, among which are paid Spaces, in which participants have to pay a ticket to the organizers of a conversation.

The paid Spaces will have the price and number of participants chosen by their organizers, although Twitter retains a commission. This feature will be tested in the coming months among a small number of users.

In addition, other features that will come to Spaces are the ability to schedule and configure reminders -in the coming weeks-, organize conversations together with other people, improvements in subtitles and new ways to discover Spaces.

How does Spaces work?

On Twitter for iOS and Android, when someone you follow starts or speaks in a Spaces, it will appear at the top of your timeline as a purple bubble while live. When you join a Spaces as a listener, you can react to what you hear with emojis, view pinned tweets , follow the conversation through subtitles, chirp, send the Spaces via direct message, or ask to speak.

When you join a Spaces as a speaker, in addition to taking the floor, you can add trills and turn on subtitles so that everyone can follow what you are saying.

According to Twitter, when you create a Spaces you have control – over who has the say, the topics, and the vibe.

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To make people feel safe as “hosts” or participating in a conversation on Spaces, the social network added “security controls available to hosts and speakers. For example, as a host, you can mute speakers, or even completely remove people from Spaces. We recently added the ability for hosts to mute all speakers at the same time and a new administration page. ”