Twitter Circle, currently features in tests, is another example of how active the social network has been in the last two to three years in terms of service growth. The growth of functions, ie clearly focused on retaining existing users and also on trying to attract more people to the service. These are not the best times when it comes to the public image of Twitter, so they are very actively looking for a solution.

The last example (for now), as I said, is called Twitter Circle and we can already find it official information about it on the help pages on your website. This is how Twitter Circle is described:

«Twitter Circle is a way to tweet selected people and share your thoughts with a smaller crowd. You choose who is in your circle on Twitter, and only the people you add can respond to and work with tweets you share in the circle.»

If we delve a little deeper into the published information, we’ll see the size of the circles offered by Twitter Circle is a maximum of 150 people, which the user will have to select manually, with the option to edit the list whenever he wishes. And once a circle is configured, each time you post a tweet, you can choose to make it visible to all of Twitter, or only visible to those specific people.

In other words, Twitter Circle is quite similar to Facebook posts, which can only be seen by the people the user wants. With an important difference, yes, and that is related to the unnecessary two-way direction of Twitter itself. In other words, while Facebook is limited in scope to the friendships that define both parties, in the case of circles, it is possible to add people who do not follow us.

The question you have certainly asked is whether you can control your presence in the Twitter Circle and the answer is no. Only the person in charge of the circle can control which people are part of it, and therefore the audience of the messages they send. However, being part of a circle does not necessarily mean that we will see its message, especially if we do not follow its leader.

Each user will be able to create only one circleand the messages you send to him, as with protected accounts (lock), cannot be tweeted. However, the social network clarifies that, unlike the same and communities, Twitter Circle is focused on sharing content of a general nature, not a specific topic, to a small audience (understand unlike the potentially global reach of any other Twitter message).