Twitter Spaces Testing a New Discovery Feature: All the Details

Twitter Spaces is testing a characteristic that may make it simpler for customers to find the audio-only chat rooms higher. Earlier, customers have been solely capable of view Spaces of the individuals they comply with in the event that they have been internet hosting. Now, customers will be capable to view Spaces that the individuals they comply with are listening to. Users additionally get the choice to cover the Spaces they’re listening from their followers. Twitter mentioned that it’s “experimenting” Spaces’ new options with just a few customers on iOS and Android, so do not count on the characteristic to roll out to everybody instantly.

Through a tweet, Twitter Spaces introduced that it’s experimenting a brand new characteristic that means that you can see what the customers you comply with are listening to, on the high of your timeline. The tweet additionally mentions that customers will be capable to cover the Spaces they’re listening to from their followers in the event that they want to. Users can flip this characteristic on by heading to the Settings and privateness menu and navigating to the Privacy and security choice. Once there, within the Spaces menu customers will see an choice Let followers see which Spaces you are listening to. However, customers ought to notice that they are going to nonetheless be seen to different customers within the Spaces they’re listening to.

Earlier this month, Twitter announced that it’s updating its API v2 to make it simpler for builders to seek for Spaces. Developers will now be “able to look up live or scheduled Spaces using criteria like Spaces ID, user ID, or keyword.” Essentially, builders would be capable to redirect customers to a Space straight from different, third-party apps as effectively.

Additionally, Twitter additionally announced that it’s extending the flexibility so as to add extra co-hosts to Twitter Spaces. Hosts will now be capable to designate as much as two co-hosts for a Space. In complete, a Space can now have one host, two co-hosts, and as much as 10 audio system. Co-hosts will be capable to invite audio system, handle requests, take away contributors, pin Tweets, and extra.