Today (Tuesday), the Twitter platform launched its new “Twitter Circle” feature, which allows tweeters around the world to share their tweets with specific groups of followers.
Through the “Twitter Circle” feature, the platform’s pioneers have the ability to choose the list of followers who can easily see and interact with their tweets when each tweet is published.
In this way, tweeters can now enjoy personal conversations, and strengthen the relationship that binds them with specific groups of their followers.
The beta version of this feature was tested on a specific group of platform pioneers last April, which made it possible to create new tools that match the personal preferences of tweeters, make decisions about sharing content and choose followers, and determine the most appropriate time to interact with them.
Starting today, this feature is available on iOS and Android devices and on Twitter.com worldwide.
Choosing followers within the "Twitter Circle"
Before posting a Tweet, Tweeters can see the option to share it with a specific circle of followers or with all of them. They can add up to 150 followers within that circle, whose properties can be changed at any time without notifying the followers of that.
Followers within the Twitter circle will be able to see a green badge at the bottom of the tweets they want to post. These tweets cannot be reposted or shared, bearing in mind that only followers included within the specified circle can view, interact with, and respond to tweets in complete privacy, even if the user's account is not an account with limited privacy.
More information on how to create a Twitter Circle is available here.
Personalize your tweets
The Twitter platform seeks, through this new feature, to enable all of its users to have the choice and tools necessary to control the privacy of their tweets and interact transparently with existing conversations, as they wish, and at the time they want.
Since Twitter launched the beta phase of this feature, tweeters have expressed how it has contributed significantly to improving their personal experience across the platform and enhancing the privacy of their tweets, including:
• The ability to post tweets and express their personal opinions with more freedom.
• There is no need after today to have alternative or secondary accounts to tweet through them absolutely freely.
• Sharing the content with a specific group of friends that can be changed at the desire of the tweeter.
• Avoid changing the settings of personal accounts from “private” to “public” or vice versa.
• Some of the results reached during the experimental phase included the following:
Increased tweeting in general (within and outside the “Twitter circle”)
• Increased interaction with tweets within the "Twitter Circle" (expressing admiration and commenting on tweets)
In this context, Twitter is always committed to collecting feedback from its trusted partners and online safety experts and integrating it into its products and the benefits it offers to users. They regularly stress the importance of privacy controls across online platforms and their role in enabling all users to freely express their personal opinions online.
future steps
The Twitter teams will continue to monitor the Twitter Circle feature over the next few months, and will look at ways to improve and enhance its effectiveness. The platform will also continue to offer features and tools that enable tweeters to use Twitter according to their personal preferences, which vary from person to person.
Follow @TwitterSafety to learn more about Twitter's work to make more secure services available to everyone.
Okaz (Riyadh)