Twitter Spaces Are Soon Coming to Desktop

Email Spaces received backlash for being a “Clubhouse copy,” but it seems to be developing a lot faster than the invite-only app. Audio chat app Clubhouse exploded onto the scene in April 2020, and its popularity caused a domino effect of other social media apps pushing out similar features. Twitter was one of these apps, with its release of Spaces. Spaces Won’t Be Mobile-Only for Much Longer Noah Jorgensen, senior software engineer at Twitter, shared screenshots on Friday of what he’s currently working on: access to Spaces via a desktop computer. Jorgensen’s screenshots show a small pop-up window that appears when you want to join a Space. You’ll see a list of people currently in that Space, and a purple button that says Join this space. In the past, reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong has leaked some Twitter features before they’ve officially rolled out (for example, the addition of Revue’s newsletter features and the development of the “undo tweet” button), but this time, she opted to simply reply to Jorgensen’s thread of tweets: Yes! Once you join a space it will persist while you move around the site. I will share it once I have something— noah (@magusnn) March 26,…
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