Twitter Spaces allows you to record and share 30-second audios in all rooms

Twitter Spaces now allows administrators of their audio rooms to record and share clips up to 30 seconds long, a novelty limited for the time being to the system operating iOS and for the testing phase.

“The social network has presented this novelty that, for the time being, is only available to “some iOS users”, as announced by one of the spokespersons for Twitter, Joseph J. Núñez, in a statement to the media outlet The Verge.

This same spokesman of the company has promised that the novelty will come “very soon” to Android and web users. He also mentioned that the audio clips, of maximum 30 seconds, will remain for 30 days on Twitter Spaces to be shared.

Twitter is currently limiting the use of this new feature to users who hold the position of administrator in one of its audio rooms. However, this novelty “will come to everyone in the near future”, according to Núñez. In this regard, the social network is expected to establish some security mechanism to ensure the correct use of this new tool.

Audio clips are already present on other platforms such as Twitch. In the case of the latter, the feature saves many users from having to watch a live for several hours. YouTube is another big company that is also testing a very similar feature.

Twitter Spaces direct competitor Clubhouse introduced the clips at the end of September. In the case of Amazon, Jeff Bezos' company also allows you to share clips of up to 30 seconds of some of its content offered on Prime Video. Even Slack has implemented a similar tool to make recordings and prevent its users from calling a meeting.

An initiative to curb misinformation

One of Twitter's big bets this year is to generate mechanisms to curb misinformation. To this end, a few weeks ago it announced the official launch of Birdwatch, an initiative that allows the community to identify information they consider misleading in tweets and write notes that provide an informative context.

Since the beginning of March, a small, random group of users in the United States can now see Birdwatch notes directly in some tweets. They can also grade those notes to add context that is useful for users with different points of view.

Twitter has explained that for a note to appear in a tweet it must have contributions from enough users with different perspectives, which is evaluated according to how those users have previously rated the notes and is not only based on demographic issues.

It should be noted that the social network partnered with news agencies to help the Twitter team better assess the relevance and quality of contributions made under Birdwatch.

The company also has a team of researchers and academics specializing in identifying misinformation, polarization, manipulation and harassment. They are advisors who come from MIT, the University of Washington and Michigan, among others.

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