San Francisco – (dpa) – The social networking platform decided to provide the “communities” feature for users of Android devices, following a while the feature was only available to users of smart devices running the iOS operating system or personal computers.
It is noteworthy that this feature was launched last September and allows Twitter users to create groups for a specific topic, region, or any common denominator, in the manner of “groups” on the Facebook platform.
According to the Twitter platform, through the “communities” feature, “people can direct tweets directly to a specific user instead of directing them to all their followers. It is also the users who are members of this community who will be able to comment on the tweet or reply to it,” although the tweets are still so far also appearing on the public account of the user who made the tweets.
Although this feature is still in the testing phase, communities have already appeared on topics such as “digital currency”, the “Xbox” game console, “R&B” music, Formula 1 racing and other topics of interest to large numbers of people.
The user needs to receive an invitation via direct message from a moderator in order to join a particular community.
Each community has a number of moderators approved by the Twitter platform, who are responsible for creating the community, enforcing its rules, and inviting others to join the discussions.
