Finally, Twitter is making Spaces available to everyone

Twitter Spaces is a place where people may have audio chats with one other in real-time through Twitter. It’s the transitory nature of these live audio chats that make them ideal for candid, uncensored debate, and there’s a Space for any subject or conversation, no matter how tiny or private it may be.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/10/twitter-spaces-chat-feature-april-launch/

After Clubhouse became popular, Twitter introduced Spaces in November 2020 to overtake its version of audio-centric chatrooms. However, Spaces could only be hosted by people with at least 600 followers. It’s been over a year, but Twitter has finally decided to offer every one of its users the option to have their own space. This is a long-overdue luxury. Twitter is running a little behind schedule, given that it promised in April that anybody could create a Space. The Spaces team announced the move through a tweet, adding that Spaces may now be hosted by Android and iOS users alike. There’s even a GIF there that reminds people how to host a Space if they’ve forgotten after so long.

Over the year, Twitter has released a raft of additional Spaces features, including the option to add co-hosts and up to 10 speakers. Ticketed Spaces, also known as audio rooms that charge admission, were trialled as part of the Spark Program, which established a fund for Spaces producers. All of this is done without granting the most critical user rights: the ability to host private rooms.

In July, Clubhouse ceased to be an invite-only service and became available to all users. Twitter is just now removing the limits on hosting rights, which suggests that it may have lost a crucial opportunity to pique user interest in the service. How much faster will Clubhouse die as Spaces develops, or will it be abandoned like the Stories-like Fleets when it’s done?

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