In May of this year, Twitter launched Circles on a trial basis for some accounts, but now extending it to all users. It is a function designed to have more control over the platform. How? By specifically choosing who can see certain Tweets.

So, for example, you can Tweet to anyone with the Public option, but you can choose if you want your message to reach a smaller and more personalized group. Twitter circle. Now that the testing phase is over, let’s take a closer look at how this new feature is used and what you need to access it.

Twitter circle on iOS, Android and the web

Twitter Circle is slowly spreading all over the world on iOS, Android and Twitter.com. To get started, select this option from any platform: write a new tweet. While doing this, a popup will appear inviting you to use Circle if you have already enabled the option.

Once you’ve prepared your tweet, you’ll find a menu at the top right, right next to your profile picture, where you can choose your audience. It will be among the options People, twitter circle Y my communities. In this case we are interested twitter circle. You can select or edit to add users.

If you choose to edit, Add up to 150 contacts to Circle, users that you can add or remove at any time without notification. Although yes, the legend is “Only people in the @ Circle[nombre de usuario] can see this Tweet” so they will know they are in a Circle.

That’s not the only change on Twitter. The microblogging social network is also testing a verification system for anyone who uses their phone number and CoTweets so that two accounts become the author of a message. In the midst of all this, Elon Musk is still looking for arguments not to buy the social network.

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