Only members of a Community can like or reply to tweets sent by other members. Twitter invited a handful of users to create the first Communities and will let anyone apply to create their own on its website. That makes Communities harder to join than subreddits or public groups on Facebook.
Twitter is also approving moderators to start. Communities is a somewhat obvious move for Twitter, given that its users have long formed niche groups around specific interests, like media and crypto. Twitter is now formalizing that dynamic into a product that it plans to eventually put front and center on the main navigation bar of its mobile app.
Those who have access to Communities on iOS can access them through the tab on the navigation bar, while users on the web will see a Communities tab on the sidebar. To help fix the problem, the company has in the past couple of years prioritized recommending topics, such as professional sports teams, to follow.
Communities is the latest in a string of big product bets from Twitter over the last year, including its audio chat feature Spaces, paywalled tweets, and push into newsletter hosting. Twitter, however, touts its news reading feature as a way for subscribers to support their favorite sites, as a portion of the Twitter Blue subscription will be paid out directly to the participating publishers.
Twitter Blue readers may also not be able to recirculate through the site as web visitors do, decreasing overall engagement. Top Articles is initially live on Android and desktop at launch. Personalization features like app icons and themes are iOS only, as is custom navigation and pinned DM conversations. Biz Stone : I went out to California to take a risk. I thought this isn't risky. Evan and I quit Google, we started this Odeo company.
Problem with Odeo was although it was a good idea and we raised venture capital to build it, we were not using the product. We were not emotionally invested in the product. If you're going to do a startup and you're going to take that risk, you have to be emotionally invested. HS : Did you have any success with it?
Did anyone sign up? BS : It wasn't a complete dud. It wasn't lighting the world on fire like Blogger. HS : How much money had you raised? HS : It takes money to put up the infrastructure.
That's the thing. And with these companies it's difficult, because you gotta offer it free first. Like Facebook and all that. You gotta offer it free so that people start using it. BS : Big leap of faith and you have to start building. It wasn't lighting the world on fire. We weren't thrilled by it. What had happened was during this time, my other co-founder Jack Dorsey and I had become close collaborators and friends.
We were starting to talk about what else we could do besides this that would be more fun. And Evan, who was our third co-founder, had this great idea. He said, "You guys seem to be getting along really well. Why don't you just take a break? Take two weeks and build something totally different. Something fun, something you guys really want to do.
HS : And when someone says that to you, you can build that because you know how to program? You write the script, so to speak? BS : Right. So Jack and I built the prototype. We took two weeks and built the working early model of Twitter and showed the rest of the team.
We said, "What do you guys think? When we heard this interview, we'd already been working on this story for a while. We'd talked to Odeo investors and Odeo employees who had all seen the creation of Twitter firsthand. What Biz told Howard Stern sounded different from what all those people told us — especially in the way it left out Noah Glass and Florian Weber.
Earlier this month, Noah Glass, who had not updated his Twitter, YouTube , or blog accounts in almost two years, posted to Twitter that he was "putting life into cardboard. Touching on what it feels like to be left out of history, how hard it is to be "betrayed" by your friends, and whether Ev Williams lied to Odeo investors about Twitter's numbers, it went like this…. A Note: We reached out to Evan Williams several times to discuss this story. He never responded. After we published this story, he tweeted , "It's true that Noah never got enough credit for his early role at Twitter.
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