Twitter Invites First iOS Hosts to Test New Spaces Clipping Functionality

Twitter has announced being in the process of testing a new, exciting clipping feature for its live audio chats called Spaces. Select iOS hosts have already been given the ability to produce short, 30-second audio clips from an existing Space and share those with other users via tweets. Located on the users’ Timeline, these clips are iOS-only for now; however, the same functionality is scheduled to arrive on Android and web platforms in the nearest future. Twitter also intends to make the feature accessible to regular users instead of just hosts. 

Twitter residents are not limited in the number of clips they can make and should be able to continue having access to these for 30 days. Tweets sharing Spaces audio clips will also refer listeners to the unclipped recording. The clipping functionality is the platform’s attempt to boost users’ interest in voice-based social media and help hosts bring new audiences to their Spaces by sharing just a few highlighted parts of the content.

Creating and sharing audio snippets is an option Twitter Spaces borrowed from Clubhouse. However, with the advantage of greater outreach and broader scale, the popular US-based social network is likely to be able to do what Clubhouse failed to achieve – incite people’s interest in producing and consuming social audio. Many agree that it is only possible if Twitter finds a way for the new Spaces tool to capture only relevant audio content.

As a build-up to introducing the new clipping functionality, Twitter has also presented a few other features like Spaces Recordings and the ability of hosts to see how many users join the live event or how many of them replay it afterward.

Have you had a chance to try the new feature yet? How exciting do you find social audio to be? Feel free to speak up in the comments below!