Jack Dorsey, CEO and co-founder of Twitter, gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on November 12, 2018.
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On Tuesday Twitter launched its rival fleets for story features available in Snapchat and Instagram. It also announced that it would soon begin testing a new audio feature, similar to the popular startup Clubhouse.
Fleets can post feedback to Twitter users in full screen photos, videos, tweets or plain text that disappears after 24 hours.
Twitter began testing fleets in select markets such as Brazil in March, but it starts rolling out globally for iOS and Android Twitter users from Tuesday. This feature will appear at the top of users’ apps, above their feed. The company said it expects the feature to encourage more users to post content.
“People feel more comfortable engaging in conversations on Twitter with this supernatural structure because what they are saying is living life for just a moment instead of always feeling around,” said Joshua Harris, Twitter’s design director.
The company also announced the space on Tuesday, a feature that will allow users to join virtual rooms where they can engage in real-time, audio dio conversations with others.
The spaces keep Clubhouse in mind, a startup that quickly gained popularity among venture capitalists earlier this year. Clubhouse allows its users to join rooms where they can engage in real-time, audio dio conversations with others.
The space will allow Twitter users to have more thoughtful discussions and exchanges, said Kywon Backpoor, lead of the Twitter product.
“It’s an interesting start here. Someone’s doing something interesting. Let’s try and copy it,” Beckpour said. “It’s very basic for us. If we want to give Twitter a place where we can have thoughtful conversations, we need to support the broad spectrum of those conversations. “
Before the end of 2020 there will be rolling spaces for the selection of test users. At the start of that test, the space will only be available to users who are women or have a marginalized background, the company said. Those are the users who are harassed disproportionately on Twitter, said Maya Gold Peters, product designer of the Twitter staff.
“The team is interested and the company is interested in hearing people from this group on their feedback,” Patterson said.
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