Sing Your Dialect: Live Twitter karaoke party joined by KSI, Declan Rice and Aaron Ramsdale – BBC

By Kirsty Grant & Alice EvansBBC NewsbeatImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, YouTuber and rapper KSI was among the 150,000 people to join Jacob’s event on Monday nightRapper KSI and Premier League footballers like Declan Rice and Aaron Ramsdale have all taken part in an impromptu karaoke party hosted by an unemployed 18-year-old from Manchester.Jacob McLaughlin only invited four friends to his Sing Your Dialect event, hosted on Twitter’s new Spaces feature.But the link went viral and more than 150,000 people tuned in across Monday evening, Twitter said.Jacob told Newsbeat the reception to his event has been “just crazy”.What is Twitter Spaces?Put simply, a Twitter Space is like a group phone call. Anyone can join a Space as long as they have the invite link.There’s a host who controls who can speak, which at the moment is limited to 13 people at once. Twitter has been trialling the feature with a few users for a while, but started rolling it out more widely earlier this year. In October the social media platform announced that everyone with the app on iOS or Android can now host a Space.What is Sing Your Dialect?”I see it as a celeb versus the people karaoke radio…
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