Twitter is debuting its Circle function, which allows you to send a tweet to a specific group of individuals, internationally. In May, the firm began testing this Instagram “Close Friends”-like function in limited beta, and it is now available to all users.
Users can add up to 150 people to their Circle, but they can only construct one at the moment. There are no restrictions on who you can add to a Circle, so you can add Harry Styles if you wish – however celebrities may ignore your tweets.
Circle members will notice a distinctive green badge alongside tweets indicating that the post is exclusively viewable to that group and not the user’s public timeline.
“You decide who is in your Twitter Circle, and only the people you’ve added may see, respond to, and interact with the Tweets you share in the Circle.” “Tweets published to the group will display a green label for those in your Circle,” the company explained in a blog post.
Users are not even notified when someone adds or removes them from a Circle. Furthermore, because Twitter does not allow users to quit a Circle, they must block the person who formed it in order to no longer be a part of it.
While the social network did not openly confirm it, Circle is one of the solutions it has devised to prevent individuals from locking down their profiles while still keeping some kind of anonymity around certain posts. Users cannot retweet tweets made in a Circle, just as they cannot retweet tweets from protected profiles. After this update, users will be able to submit a tweet to their public timeline, their Circle, or a community they are a part of.
Twitter updated its audio tab last week to offer over two million podcasts with live Spaces. The makeover will include customizable “Stations” for various topics such as sports, news, movies, and music, with both recorded podcasts and live audio sessions.
While Twitter continues to roll out new product features, as usual, former employee-turned-whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko’s complaint to US officials has generated a shitstorm for the firm. Mudge, who has since been subpoenaed by Musk’s lawyers, accused Twitter of “egregious faults, incompetence, intentional ignorance, and risks to national security and democracy,” as well as of tweaking its user metrics to conceal the number of bots on the platform. Earlier today, the Tesla CEO’s lawyers sent Twitter an additional agreement termination notice based on the allegations in Zatko’s complaint.
