Twitter’s ‘Close Friends’ Feature to be Released This Week

Twitter is finally gearing up to launch its ‘Close Friends’ feature; if it sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Instagram and Facebook allow users to control their feeds and what their followers see. Nevertheless, Twitter’s new feature is slightly different.

Twitter’s Close Friends

Twitter is introducing the Circle function, which allows you to send a tweet to a specific group of individuals worldwide. In May, the firm began testing an Instagram “Close Friends”-like function in restricted beta, and it is now accessible to all users.

Users may add up to 150 individuals to their Circle, but they can only construct one now. There are no restrictions on who you may add to a Circle, so go ahead and add any public profile, albeit celebrities may ignore your tweets. Circle members will notice a distinctive green label alongside tweets indicating that the post is exclusively viewable to that group and not the user’s public timeline. Hence if you tweet about large file transfers in your group, it will only be visible to the selected individuals and will not appear on your public profile.

Users are not even notified when someone adds or removes them from a Circle. Furthermore, since Twitter does not enable users to quit a Circle, they must block the person who formed it to no longer be a member.

While the social network does not openly confirm it, Circle is one of the solutions it has devised to prevent individuals from shutting down their accounts while keeping some anonymity around certain postings. Users cannot retweet tweets made in a Circle, just as they cannot retweet tweets from protected profiles. After this update, users can submit a tweet to their public timeline, their Circle, or a community they are a member of.

Another Feature Was Just Added

Last week, Twitter updated its audio tab to offer over two million podcasts with live Spaces. The makeover will include customizable “Stations” for various themes such as sports, news, movies, and music, with both recorded podcasts and live audio sessions.

While the company is rolling feature after feature, it seems to be in a much-heated legal battle, which has resulted in a visit from Tesla’s lawyers due to the whistleblowers’ allegations. We have yet to see how this turns out.