Twitter Launches Invite-Only Communities to Compete With Facebook Groups

[MacRumors]

Twitter today announced the launch of a new "Communities" feature that's meant to take on Facebook's popular Groups by providing a space where people can share discussions on a specific topic.

An invite-only feature at the current time, Communities are created by Twitter users and are self-moderated. Community creators who are invited by Twitter to participate can invite an unlimited number of users to their group.

Members of a Community will see a new option to choose an audience in the tweet composer, allowing them to tweet to all of their followers or just to those followers who participate in the Community.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1435652985581867015

Tweets shared to a Community will show up in the Community and in the timelines of other members of the group. Communities are not private and can be viewed by others on Twitter, but only members can participate.

On iOS devices, Communities can be accessed through the navigation bar, and on the web, there's a Communities option on the sidebar.

Starting today, there are a handful of Communities available such as #DogTwitter and #SkinCareTwitter, but Twitter is planning for more to be created each week and those interested in starting a Community can apply on the Twitter website.

Article Link: Twitter Launches Invite-Only Communities to Compete With Facebook Groups

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗]

I’m not too sure if this is going to be helpful for the communities.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

I might be interested in joining some Twitter groups...

Although I feel like the siloing on social media is what has lead to such radical polarization of people... people no longer feel societal pressure from people who are geographically nearby them to adopt more moderate positions. Instead people self radicalize, by picking groups where they lay in the middle (and then gravitate towards people more extreme than themselves.)

 

[AngerDanger]

meant to take on Facebook's popular Groups by providing a space where people can share discussions on a specific topic.

Cause if there's one thing we've all thought, it's boy do I wish Twitter was more like Facebook.

 

[Zachari]

Political echo chamber x10

 

[rainbowtapes]

Twitter are just throwing **** at the wall constantly in recent years hoping for something to stick

 

[iggi123]

Never will I be using Twitter, such a biased company

 

[The Clark]

The worst social media app you could have on your phone is Twitter. It's filled with arrogant, group-think, pretentious, petulant, immature and vulgar takes from people who should really think twice before publishing their tweets.

 

[wigby]

Never will I be using Twitter, such a biased company

Ok, I'll bite. Who was "cancelled" on Twitter that you agreed with?

My follow up question is who didn't you mind being "cancelled" because you disagreed with them?

Please don't bother answering these questions.

 

[iggi123]

Ok, I'll bite. Who was "cancelled" on Twitter that you agreed with?

My follow up question is who didn't you mind being "cancelled" because you disagreed with them?

Please don't bother answering these questions.

I don’t want anyone cancelled… I know it’s mind blowing

 

[KaliYoni]

I betcha a lot of Twitter stuff happens because Jack Dorsey's ideal meeting is one where he doesn't have to say anything (yes, really). That's not a great way to run a company...at least until mind reading becomes a common human skill. Maybe Jack's weirdo Soylent + purging diet routine adds to the disfunction at Twitter HQ too...

 

[iDento]

The worst social media app you could have on your phone is Twitter. It's filled with arrogant, group-think, pretentious, petulant, immature and vulgar takes from people who should really think twice before publishing their tweets.

I won’t argue with that, but tell me how other social media apps are any better.

 

[LiquidJay]

I don’t want anyone cancelled… I know it’s mind blowing

Think very deeply about that statement.

 

[macar00n]

Social media is really great and has had a positive impact on society, we should for sure continue down this road

 

[carrrrrlos]

Reddit for the win.

 

[WiseAJ]

Just one more thing for twitter to fail at moderating.

 

[JahBoolean]

I mean, if this can help with the rampant botting problem, why not.

Never used Dorsay's toy though.

Social media should be heavily regulated, but that's my own two cents.

 

[dabi]

I might be interested in joining some Twitter groups...

Although I feel like the siloing on social media is what has lead to such radical polarization of people... people no longer feel societal pressure from people who are geographically nearby them to adopt more moderate positions. Instead people self radicalize, by picking groups where they lay in the middle (and then gravitate towards people more extreme than themselves.)

Twitter is not all about politics.

 

[neliason]

Twitter used to be somewhat interesting. Now, like all social media, it has been made boring due to censorship.

 

[RadioHedgeFund]

Rent your own server space and start your own forum free of the big players.

 

[Deacon-Blues]

Twitter is the most toxic place on Earth. It is a viper’s den of cry bullies, virtue signalers, and wokeist religious zealots looking for their next target for personal destruction. I can’t imagine any feature Twitter could introduce that would expand their audience beyond their current echo chamber of horrors.

 

[AgentOSX]

Great. Just another method for Twitter to track, isolate, censor and shut down opinions Jack doesn’t like.

 

[827538]

Ok, I'll bite. Who was "cancelled" on Twitter that you agreed with?

My follow up question is who didn't you mind being "cancelled" because you disagreed with them?

Please don't bother answering these questions.

They cancelled a sitting President. If that doesn't scare the hell out of you then I don't know what will.

I can list quite a few, Carl Benjamin, Alex Jones, they've had mass banning of pro-life conservatives, Blue Check Mark watch was banned for pointing out the hypocrisy in Twitters bans. There's whole lists of people, just search on DuckDuckGo as Google censors their results quite heavily.

The fact that the Taliban and many fundamentalist Islamic groups are free to post on Twitter but not Trump says a lot.

I don't believe any US President should be banned from social media and it's a clear sign social media needs broken up and regulated. The Democrats won't do it as they are a part of the Silicon Valley cartel.

Twitter operates under the protections of Section 230 as a platform but behaves as a publisher, it's time they were either forced to behave as a fair platform or held liable like a publisher. Personally I think they should no longer be afforded Section 230 protections.

 

[827538]

Rent your own server space and start your own forum free of the big players.

Oh like Parler who were subsequently digitally death sentenced when everyone started leaving Twitter? Or Subscribestar? or Gab?

Hard to start your own platforms when the entire Silicon Valley and banking cartels then do everything they can to shut you down.

 

[macduke]

I don't see this becoming a horrible echo chamber of misinformation at all whatsoever.

/s

Facebook is a doomsday device. Looks like Twitter is also heading in that direction. Damn.