It has been several months since Twitter announced the launch of Spaces, which is its own Clubhouse-style language room. In the first phase, Twitter started testing them with some users, then opened a little fence, and finally enabled them for all users. The only requirement to activate this function is that we have more than 600 followers on our profile.
According to Twitter, the reason is that "these accounts can have a good experience of hosting conversations in real time due to the existing audience." On the other hand, Twitter has confirmed that it is working in the ticketing space, the paid voice room. , which allows creators to pass content. Earn money.
Twitter Spaces is a real-time audio room. When the user launches it, a purple bubble with a photo will appear at the top of Fleets, indicating that the user is broadcasting. If we click on it, we can join the conversation as a listener. After logging in, we can react with emojis, review fixed tweets, follow subtitles, send tweets, send direct messages to space, or raise our hands to speak.
As far as the guest is concerned, you can control the room. You can decide the topic, mute the microphones of certain users, or remove specific listeners. Blocked users will not be able to join the chat room. Similarly, if we join the chat room in which they participate, blocked users will be marked as such users.
How do you start a Space? In principle, they are already available to any user with more than 600 followers, as well as applications for iOS and Android. Just press and hold the icon to compose tweet and select "Spaces". Click on "Contac us»And voila, we'll start broadcasting.
Although Spaces is among us, Twitter plans to make them more interesting and add more features in the future. One of the most interesting things is ticket sales, which will allow creators to earn money with their rooms. Creators will be able to set the price they want and even limit the number of tickets available, just like at a concert. Guests will get a share, but Twitter will charge a commission, the percentage of which has yet to be determined.
Soon, you can also organize and set reminders, set up a voice room with multiple guests, the barrier-free system will be improved, and more ways to access the space will be added. All of these features are in testing or development, so I hope they will be available soon.
How Twitter "Quoted Tweets" Work
If you are a regular user of Twitter It is likely that you have noticed that from the platform they have decided to change the way in which they call some of its most used functionalities, such as the retweet with comment, a functionality that was launched in 2015 and that has now achieved greater prominence after the platform has decided to add an option that allows see the «quoted tweets»Of each particular publication.
Thanks to the new button Tweets cited, which seems together with the counter of retweets and "I like you", it will be much easier to be able to have conversations with other people and thus access the desired information, without having to do the steps that had to be carried out so far, as was the case. go to «Retweets» and then click on «Retweets with comments».
The social platform has been testing different ways to change functionality, finally choosing to add a design that allows more content to be included in the conversation. It is available for both iOS mobile applications and those with the Android operating system.
Although it may seem like an insignificant change at first, the truth is that it will improve the user experience, since they will be able to save clicks to find what is being said about a topic or certain tweets.
Twitter has been adding small changes, a feature launched at the beginning of last month that allows you to choose the public that can respond to tweets.
New improvements to Twitter trends
On many occasions you go to Twitter and to see why it is a trend it is necessary to take a look at the Tweets and to change this, the social network has decided to work to make some trends show up in a tweet that allows you to be aware of the context immediately, thus facilitating the information by the user.
This new function will be available in the mobile applications for iOS and Android, so when you check the trends from your smartphone you will find a functionality that, using your algorithms, will allow you to know the most representative tweets that are not SPAM or that have not been published by accounts that try to take advantage of the system.
In this way, in the coming weeks there will be descriptions added in some of the trends so that users have more context about what is really happening and why those topics are trending.
This technology will be part of the platform's curation team, which will also be in charge of determining if a tweet represents a trend. This functionality is in its initial phase, being available in countries such as: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Spain, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates United States and United States.
Fight misinformation
On the other hand, and bearing in mind the next US elections, social networks are preparing to stop the advance of the more than probable misinformation that may exist during the electoral process.
Just as Facebook announced the adoption of measures to protect users from the US elections, Twitter will do the same to prevent false or misleading information from being published. A permanent challenge that is even more difficult to achieve.
For Twitter, it is very important to deal with the misinformation of users, thus avoiding that there may be fake news that in one way or another could alter the results in the US elections.