If you opened your phone this morning to see an update to the Twitter app, you may have been excited – and then confused – to see an ad for Twitter spaces, the audio chat rooms that the social network recently launched to compete with the similar Clubhouse app. “Introducing Spaces,” says the iOS update, promising that “Now you can tweet and speak”.
But while you don’t really find the ability to create a new Space unless you are one of the few selected, the company now says it is planning to launch Spaces for everyone next month.
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Interestingly, we heard the news in the Twitter space itself, hosted by the company. Twitter’s plans are not set in stone, but the gist is that they are trying to get the product to a state where anyone can host a Twitter Space starting in April. April is the goal. Meanwhile, iOS and Android users can log in and chat at existing Spaces.
Twitter Spaces are just one of a series of new features that the normally feature-resistant company has announced in recent months, and we have a wide-ranging interview with Twitter’s product chief, Kayvon Beykpour, where he discusses the whole set, including Snap and Instagram-like vanishing Twitter fleets, and Super Follows, where you can pay to subscribe to extra Twitter content from your favorite creators – a deal that reminds us of platforms like Substack and OnlyFans.