Twitter Announces Its Next Experiment: Podcasts

The company has been experimenting with product ideas in recent years, but the results have been mixed

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Fleets is an Instagram story-like feature that was rolled out and rescinded less than a year later

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Twitter Spaces debuted about 18 months ago as another way for users to connect live audiourally

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through video chats similar too Clubhouse app which still exists today!

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Twitter has announced plans to launch a podcasting app, giving it another way of connecting with its users

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Like other social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram which also offer podcasts through their respective apps or online services

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this will allow people who love listening while they go about daily life have access in one place where there were before separate applications for each platform

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The company says that "the new feature is designed specifically" around sharing audio files but we should note here at least some similarities

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between how these interact: You can upload your own tracks via WiFi transfer; share clips by linking accounts together

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Twitter will most likely pursue some sort of advertising/revenue model to monetize the podcast feature on its site

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