Twitter now allows a room owner in Spaces to choose two co-hosts to help them in a chat session. The change, announced this Thursday (5/8), aims to make user management and moderation easier in the environment.
Twitter explains that co-hosts will have almost the same powers as a regular host: they can tag tweets and invite, remove, and mute any user in the room. The difference is that, unlike the main host, this co-host cannot invite a second user or remove a user from the room who is in the same role. Only the room owner can also end a session.
Along with the addition of two hosts, Twitter has expanded the number of participants who can speak at once in a Spaces room. Now, you can have one host, two helpers, and ten active room members chatting at the same time. Previously, the limit was ten people.
making it easier to manage your Space…introducing co-hosting!
– hosts have two co-host invites they can send
– the table just got bigger: 1 host, 2 co-hosts, and 10 speakers
– co-hosts can help invite speakers, manage requests, remove participants, pin Tweets and more! pic.twitter.com/s76JFbhTL2— Spaces (@XSpaces) August 5, 2021
Fleets’ extinction opens space for investment in Spaces
With the end of Fleets, Spaces has become the only complementary feature to Twitter's main feed. Announced in February of this year, the space was born in the wake of the rise of Clubhouse, the app that popularized audio rooms on social media. To create a room on Spaces, however, the user must have more than 600 followers.
Twitter has been testing different ways to engage audiences with the new feature. Last week, for example, the company allowed users to tweet directly from Spaces with hashtags that attract listeners to your content. In the beta version of the service for iOS, users gained access to a search field where they can look for live events or upcoming events.
Twitter has also been testing a feature to create ticketed rooms in Spaces since March. The goal of the service is to allow content creators to monetize sessions created within the platform.
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