Twitter could also be including a built-in podcasts tab

It appears like Twitter’s constructing a tab devoted to podcasts, as shown in a screenshot posted by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong. The picture exhibits a microphone icon within the Twitter app’s backside menu bar, which seems to result in a web page titled “Podcasts.”

The screenshot doesn’t present any indication of how podcasts may very well be displayed on the platform or if it’ll by some means incorporate Spaces, the platform’s audio-only chatrooms. Right now, dwell Spaces are stuffed on the high of Twitter feeds, and it might make sense to prepare them right into a separate tab.

Twitter started branching out to audio when it first launched Spaces in 2020 and dove even deeper into the medium with its acquisition of social podcast platform Breaker. Spaces has been an ongoing undertaking for the platform, which not too long ago began letting anybody create chatrooms and permitting all cell customers to document conversations.

Recorded Spaces are already a bit like podcasts, albeit solely short-term ones, which solely final 30 days. If a Twitter podcast characteristic is something like Spotify or Apple Podcasts, customers would be capable of select from and hearken to podcasts at their leisure, with no rush to catch a dwell Spaces broadcast or hearken to recordings earlier than time runs out.

As social platforms look towards including extra options to doubtlessly drive extra income, Twitter is simply the most recent to probably develop one other arm to assist podcasts. Last yr, Facebook launched a podcast characteristic for choose creators, whereas Reddit simply enabled recording for its audio-only Talks. The Verge reached out to Twitter with a request for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.