Twitter redesigns its app to make Spaces the center tab in the main navigation bar, initially on iOS for around 500 people from the original Spaces beta test
Twitter is updating its app to make its audio chat room feature, Twitter Spaces, a central part of the user experience.
The roughly 500 original beta testers receive an iOS layout that puts Spaces at the center of Twitter's main navigation, increasing the feature's visibility in their routine app use.
Spaces hosts gain a more prominent entry point for reaching listeners among the initial test group, while Twitter gathers feedback on making live audio a primary destination rather than a tucked-away feature.
Second-order effects
A central tab raises the value of discovery tools, helping explain the later addition of live and upcoming Space search and direct tweeting from rooms.
Clubhouse faces a more integrated rival: Twitter can place audio rooms beside its established social conversation surfaces instead of asking users to adopt a separate app.
Third-order effects
If this navigation-first approach persists, Twitter's audio strategy shifts from standalone live rooms toward a programming and discovery layer, as reflected in later tests of themed audio stations and a personalized digest.
The later Blue-only redesigned tab suggests that a prominent content destination can also become a subscription perk, linking product navigation to differentiated access rather than solely broad availability.
The trend: Social platforms are turning live-audio experiments into curated, searchable destinations and using navigation placement and subscriber access to drive adoption.
Meanwhile, Twitter is continuing to invest in its Clubhouse competitor Spaces and is giving the feature its own dedicated tab in its app, @sarahintampa reports. https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Yes, the rumors are true. Twitter Blue is now available in Australia and Canada. Bookmark Folders? ✔️ Undo Tweet? ✔️ Reader Mode? ✔️ Plus other fun surprises. More about Twitter Blue: https://blog.twitter.com/... And don't forget to follow @TwitterBlue to share your feedback!
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Who in their right mind would PAY to use Twitter. Twitter blue is going to just piss off the bulk of users as there is no reason the tweet edit function couldn't have been included a decade ago - and saved a LOT of libel trials https://twitter.com/...
$4/mo to change the app icon color and get a button that delays tweet posting for a few seconds. Great deal! /s I'll be sticking to ad-free Twitter for $0/mo. thank you very much. How anyone uses the abominable official app with regularity is beyond me. https://twitter.com/...
The funniest thing I've seen today is that Twitter Blue, the new paid subscription is only available for iOS. Sorry my money isn't good enough for you twitter 🙄🤣 https://help.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
“Users can set their own customizable time of up to 30 seconds to ‘undo’ the tweet or reply from being posted to their Timeline, Twitter says.” Or...you could delete it and repost? https://twitter.com/...
Twitter Blue, our new subscription offering, is launching in Australia and Canada! Today, Blue provides subscribers features like Bookmark Folders, Undo Tweet, Reader Mode and a few other customization perks. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Twitter Blue is not a particularly compelling subscription service (so far). What it IS, is a sign that after like a decade of spending all its energy trying to help new users, Twitter is going all-in on power users https://www.protocol.com/...
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Reader mode and bookmark folders make this worth it for me tbh. I bookmark so much for work and it's just a long list of tweets. This would make life easier lol. https://twitter.com/...
Twitter Blue premium features include: tools to organize your bookmarks, read threads in a clutter-free format and take advantage of an “Undo Tweet” feature — which is the closest thing Twitter will have to the long-requested “Edit” button https://techcrunch.com/...
Twitter hits the core problem of charging for features in a consumer app. They're now charging $2.99 for lightweight tweet editing which is a feature that should benefit all users and the entire platform but instead they're nickel and diming for it. https://blog.twitter.com/...