Twitter is Now Testing its Communities Feature

Social media platform Twitter has begun to test Communities, a new feature on the platform that connects people with shared interests.

Communities is similar to Facebook Groups, Discord servers and Reddit subreddits and is a part of the company’s strategy to roll out more features in an effort to expand its user base.

Twitter wants to grow the user base to 315 million monetizable daily active users and grow annual revenue to $7.5 billion by the end of 2023.

The company made the announcement on Wednesday and said that Communities will allow users to talk about specific topics with others who share the same interest.

Users who join a community can tweet specifically to others in that community as opposed to all of their followers.

The only people who can reply to community tweets will be other members of those communities.

All tweets that are within Communities will be visible to the public. This means that users outside of Communities will be able to read, quote tweet and report tweets within Twitter Communities.

The first Communities at launch are focused on weather, dogs, skin care, sneakers, and astrology said Twitter.

The company also revealed that Communities will have moderators who can invite other Twitter users into their groups. Community creation will be limited at first, but Twitter said it will allow more people to create Communities in the coming months.

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