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By Jagmeet Singh | Updated: 9 February 2021 11:16 IST

Twitter Spaces Gets Wider Testing to Take on Clubhouse

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Twitter Spaces provides audio chat rooms to s

Highlights

Twitter announced Spaces feature in November
It was rolled out to initial testers in December
Twitter employees are creating Spaces to test the new feature

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Twitter has started wider testing of Spaces, its Clubhouse-styled feature that brings audio chat rooms to s. The feature, which is powered by Periscope, was first announced in November and was initially rolled out for limited beta testing in December. The wider testing of Twitter Spaces comes amid the growing popularity of Clubhouse, the voice-based social network, that added a list of renowned faces among the tech industry. The invite-only app, however, was recently banned in China over censorship. It has also been criticised for lack of content moderation.

Clubhouse is available for access only for the people who have its invite, while Twitter's beta testing of Spaces has just been expanded to 3,000 more people in addition to the initial round of approximately 1,000 testers. All these beta testers will initially get access to the feature to create private or public rooms. Any Twitter following them will be able to listen in to the Spaces rooms created by the beta testers.

Twitter Product Lead Kayvon Beykpour hosted a Spaces chat room on Tuesday to announce the wider testing of the feature, as tweeted by Tom Warren of The Verge. He mentioned that the rollout is ramping up in coming weeks.

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Some Twitter employees also started creating new Spaces. The feature is, however, yet to be available to the masses. Gadgets 360 has reached out to Twitter for clarity on the testing and were given this statement by a spokesperson in response, "Twitter is what's happening and what people are talking about right now; it's where conversations about what you care about live. Because sometimes 280 characters isn't enough to express yourself, Spaces is a new way to bring these conversations to life. With Spaces, people have a new, accessible option to in the conversations about their interests already happening on Twitter."

Twitter is allowing s to listen to Spaces created by beta testers

As iOS. This means that you need to have Twitter for iOS to listen to or create a Space. However in late January, the official Spaces posted a tweet showing that it is working on the feature for Android too. The microblogging network in January announced the acquisition of podcasting platform Breaker that is helping build its Spaces features for audio conversations.

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