Twitter is launching its Circle feature \u2014 which lets you post a tweet to a select set of people \u2014 globally. The company started testing this Instagram \u201cClose Friends\u201d-like feature in limited beta in May, and now it\u2019s making it available to all users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Users can add up to 150 people to their Circle, and currently, they can build only one of them. There\u2019s no limit to who you can include in a Circle, so you can go ahead and add Harry Styles, if you want \u2014 though celebs may ignore your tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People included in a Circle will see a special green badge under tweets to indicate that the post is only available to that group and not the user\u2019s public timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou choose who\u2019s in your Twitter Circle, and only the individuals you\u2019ve added can view, reply to and interact with the Tweets you share in the Circle. People in your Circle will see a green badge under Tweets sent to the group,\u201d the company said in a blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Users don\u2019t even get a notification when someone adds or removes them from a Circle. Plus, Twitter doesn\u2019t allow users to leave a Circle, so they have to block the person who created it to stop being a part of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the social network didn\u2019t officially admit this, Circle is one of the ways the company has come up with to stop people from locking down their profiles, while maintaining some degree of privacy around specific posts. Just like tweets from locked profiles, users can\u2019t retweet the tweets posted in a Circle. After this rollout, users have an option to post a tweet to their public timeline, to their Circle or to a community they are part of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, Twitter revamped its audio tab to include over two million podcasts with live Spaces. The redesign will introduce personalized \u201cStations\u201d for different topics like sports, news, movies and music that will offer both recorded podcasts and live audio sessions.
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