Twitter Features

Twitter Spaces, the social network’s Clubhouse rival, is working towards a public launch in April, the company announced in comments made in a public Twitter Space audio room on Wednesday.

While anyone can join an existing Spaces room right now on Twitter, only a small group of users have been able to host one. So, if you don't know or follow anyone who has access to Spaces, you might be completely missing out on the feature for now.

Twitter is testing a new way to crop images in the timeline. The new tool will give users a preview of what an image will look like before publishing it.

Twitter also plans to show more full images. The company has been criticized for having a racial bias in the way it crops images.

Social media maven Jane Manchun Wong has shared the first look at an "Undo Send" timer for tweets that lets you take back your hot take or erroneous comment before it's out in the wild.

The interface shows Twitter’s familiar “Your Tweet was sent” dialogue above a new “Undo” button. The undo button doubles as a progress bar, which appears to show you how long you have to undo a tweet before it gets sent.

Last year, Twitter told investors it was considering a subscription service, and one of its exclusive options would be an "undo send" feature.

Twitter Spaces, the company's answer to Clubhouse, is now available on Android. Until now, the audio chat rooms were iOS-only. Other Spaces features are being shared in public as they're designed and prototyped, including things like titles and descriptions, scheduling options, support for co-hosts and moderators, guest lists, and more.

This fast pace has now led Twitter to beat its rival Clubhouse - the app currently leading the "social audio" market - to offer Android support. But now, a separate beta app won't be required - when live Spaces are available, they'll appear at the top of the Twitter timeline for Android users to join.

Twitter announced new features: With the so-called Super Follows, exclusive content is coming to the platform for which users can pay money. But that is not all.

Until now, Twitter has been a fairly public platform - anyone and everyone can read everything, regardless of whether they have an account themselves. At this year's Virtual Analyst Day, the short message service has now announced a partial departure from this course. In addition, a communities feature is being planned that is reminiscent of the well-known Facebook groups.

Twitter has acquired newsletter service Revue, "a service that makes it free and easy for anyone to start and publish editorial newsletters." In a blog post, the company stated that the acquisition would help offer "writers, experts and curators – from individual creators to journalists to publishers themselves" to "create and share their content, and importantly, help them grow and better connect with their audience."

Twitter introduces a new feature called "Fleets" which enables users to share content such as tweets, videos or photos to other users in a separate section of the social media platform.

Content posted to Fleets will be visible for a 24-hour period and vanish after, similar to the Story feature on other platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger. The feature will be rolled out to users worldwide.

Twitter is exploring additional ways to make money after reporting that advertising revenues fell 23% in the second quarter. Though the platform has been seeing a record user growth and reported its largest year-over-year increase, the platform is looking into options to supplement lacking advertising revenue.

CEO Jack Dorsey recently told investors that Twitter is looking onto running tests for a subscription model that would "complement" Twitter's ad revenue. "We have a really high bar for when we would ask consumers to pay for aspects of Twitter. We are in the very, very early phases of exploring," so Dorsey.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Twitter introduced its new feature: Voice Tweets to "add a more human touch to the way we use Twitter – your very own voice". One "Voice Tweet" can be up to 140 seconds long but gets split into multiple recordings automatically if the audio is longer than that. The new feature is currently only available on iOS to a limited group of people but "in the coming weeks everyone on iOS should be able to Tweet with their voice."