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Annotation: We are early in our launch but growing. Anyone tin can join, listen, and speak in a Space on Twitter for iOS and Android. Currently you can mind in a Infinite on web. We are working on edifice out more than functionality on twitter.com.

• How to utilize Spaces
• Spaces FAQ
• What Spaces volition feel like

How exercise you start a Space?

1. The creator of a Space is the host. Equally a host on iOS, you can outset a Infinite in two ways: Long printing on the Tweet etch on your Home timeline and then tap the new Spaces icon (multiple circles forming a diamond shape) on the far left. Or, tap on your contour epitome at the peak of your timeline.
2. Spaces are public, then anyone can join as a listener, including people who don't follow you. Listeners tin can be directly invited into a Space by DMing them a link to the Infinite, Tweeting out a link, or sharing a link elsewhere.
3. Up to 13 people (including the host and 2 co-hosts) can speak in a Space at whatever given time. When creating a new Space, you lot will see options toName your Space andCommencement your Space.
4. To schedule a Space, tap Schedule for later. Cull the date and time y'all'd like your Space to go alive.
5. Once the Space has started, the host tin send requests to listeners to become co-hosts or speakers by tapping on the people icon  and adding co-hosts or speakers, or tapping on a person'southward contour film within a Space and adding them as a co-host or speaker. Listeners can request permission to speak from the host by tapping on theRequest icon beneath the microphone.
6. When creating a Space, the host volition join with their mic off and be the but speaker in the Space. When ready, tapOutset your Space.
7. Let mic admission (speaking power) to speakers by togglingAllow mic access to on.
8. Every bit the host, your Space will automatically serve alive captions.
9. Every bit a listener, choose whether or not yous desire to see captions by tapping the Show captions button in your Spaces settings.
10. Get started chatting in your Infinite.
11. If you're hosting, make sure to Tweet out the link to your Space then other people can join. Tap on the  icon toShare via a Tweet.

Spaces FAQ

Where is Spaces available?

Anyone can join, listen, and speak in a Space on Twitter for iOS and Android. Currently, starting a Space on web is not possible, but anyone can bring together and mind in a Space.

Who can start a Space?

People on Twitter for iOS and Android can beginning a Infinite.

Who tin meet my Infinite?

For at present, all Spaces are public like Tweets, which means they can be accessed by anyone. They will automatically appear at the top of your Habitation timeline, and each Space has a link that tin exist shared publicly. Since Spaces are publicly attainable by anyone, information technology may exist possible for people to listen to a Infinite without being listed as a guest in the Space.

We make certain information nigh Spaces available through the Twitter Developer Platform, such every bit the title of a Space, the hosts and speakers, and whether information technology is scheduled, in progress, or complete. For a more than detailed list of the information about Spaces we make bachelor via the Twitter API, bank check out our Spaces endpoints documentation.

Can other people see my presence while I am listening or speaking in a Space?

Since all Spaces are public, your presence and activity in a Infinite is also public. If you are logged into your Twitter account when you are in a Space, you will be visible to everyone in the Infinite as well equally to others, including people who follow you, people who peek into the Infinite without inbound, and developers accessing data about the Infinite using the Twitter API.

If you lot are listening in a Space, your contour icon will appear with a purple pill at the elevation of your followers' Home timelines. Yous have the choice to modify this in your settings.

Manage who tin can see your Spaces listening activity

Footstep 1

Tap your profile photo on the summit left menu and navigate toSettings and privacy.

Step two

Under Settings, get to Privacy and prophylactic and then to Spaces.

Step 3

Choose if you desire to Allow followers to run across which Spaces you're listening to by toggling this on or off.

Step 1

Tap your contour photo on the top left menu and navigate toSettings and privacy.

Step two

Under Settings, go to Privacy and safety and and then to Spaces.

Step iii

Cull if you lot want to Allow followers to see which Spaces y'all're listening to by toggling this on or off.

Step ane

On the left nav card, tap or click on the more icon and go to Settings and privacy.

Step ii

Under Settings, navigate to Privacy and safety.

Step 3

Under Your Twitter action, become to Spaces.

Footstep iv

Cull if you desire to Allow followers to see which Spaces you're listening to by toggling this on or off.

Your followers volition e'er run across at the meridian of their Home timelines what Spaces you're speaking in.

What does it mean that Spaces are public? Tin anyone heed in a Space?

Spaces tin be listened to past anyone on the Internet. This is part of a broader feature of Spaces that lets anyone listen to Spaces regardless of whether or not they are logged in to a Twitter account (or even accept a Twitter account). Because of this, listener counts may non match the bodily number of listeners, nor will the profile photos of all listeners necessarily be displayed in a Infinite.

How do I invite people to join a Infinite?

Invite people to join a Space by sending an invite via DM, Tweeting the link out to your Home timeline, or copying the invite link to send information technology out.

Who tin bring together my Infinite?

For at present, all Spaces are public and anyone tin can join any Space equally a listener unless yous've blocked the account. If you create a Space or are a speaker in a Space, your followers will see it at the tiptop of their timeline.

Who tin can speak in my Space?

Past default, your Space will ever be gear up toJust people you lot invite to speak. Y'all can as well modify theSpeaker permissions once your Space has been created. Tap the  icon, then tapArrange settingsto see the options for speaker permissions, which includeEveryone,People you follow, and the defaultOnly people you lot invite to speak. These permissions are simply saved for this detail Infinite, so any Space you lot create in the time to come will utilise the default setting.

Once your Space has started, you tin can send requests to listeners to become speakers or co-hosts past tapping on the  icon and adding speakers or tapping on a person's profile picture within a Space and adding them as a co-host or speaker. Listeners can request to speak from the host.

Hosts can as well invite other people outside of the Space to speak via DM.

How does co-hosting work?

Upward to two people can become co-hosts and speak in a Infinite in addition to the xi speakers (including the primary host) at one time. Co-host status can exist lost if the co-host leaves the Space. A co-host tin remove their own co-host status to become a Listener again.

Hosts tin transfer master admin rights to another co-host. If the original host drops from Space, the outset co-host added will get the primary admin.

Once a co-host is added to a Space, any accounts they've blocked on Twitter who are in the Space volition be removed from the Space.

Tin I schedule a Space?

Hosts tin schedule a Space upwardly to 14 days in accelerate. Hosts can still create impromptu Spaces in the meantime, just can but accept a max of one upcoming scheduled Space.

When you lot open Spaces, tapSchedule for later and pick the date and fourth dimension yous'd like to schedule your Space to go live. Every bit your scheduled start time approaches, you lot will receive push and in-app notifications reminding you to start your Space on fourth dimension. Scheduled Spaces are public and people can ready reminders to be notified when your scheduled Infinite begins.

How do I become notified about a scheduled Space?

Guests can sign up for reminder notifications from a scheduled Space card in a Tweet. When the host starts the scheduled Infinite, the interested guests go notified via push and in-app notifications.

Can I record a Space?

Hosts can record Spaces they create for replay. When creating a Infinite, toggle on Tape Space. While recording, a recording symbol will announced at the top to betoken that the Space is being recorded by the host. Once the Space ends, you will see how many people attended the Infinite along with a link to share out via a Tweet. Under Notifications, yous tin likewise View details to Tweet the recording. Nether host settings, y'all will have the option to choose where to start your recording with Edit kickoff time. This allows you to cut out whatsoever dead air time that might occur at the beginning of a Space.

If you cull to record your Infinite, once the alive Infinite ends, your recording volition be immediately and publicly bachelor for anyone to listen to whenever they want. You can always terminate a recording to make it no longer publicly available on Twitter by deleting your recording via the more icon on the recording itself. Your recording will exist available for xxx days after the live Space has ended. Every bit with live Spaces, Twitter will retain audio copies for 30 afterward they end to review for violations of the Twitter Rules. If a violation is found, Twitter may retain audio copies for upward to 120 days in total. For more information on downloading Spaces, please see below FAQ, "What happens subsequently a Infinite ends and is the information retained anywhere?"

Co-hosts and speakers who enter a Space that is beingness recorded will see a recording symbol (REC). Listeners will also run into the recording symbol, only they volition non be visible in the recording.

Recordings will show the host, co-host(s), and speakers from the live Space.

What is clipping?

Clipping is a new feature nosotros're currently testing and gradually rolling out that lets a express group of hosts, speakers, and listeners capture xxx seconds of audio from any live or recorded Space and share information technology through a Tweet if the host has not disabled the clipping function. To start clipping a Space, follow the instructions below to capture the prior 30 seconds of sound from that Space. In that location is no limit to the number of clips that Spaces participants can create.

When you enter the Space equally a co-host or speaker, you will be informed that the Space is clippable through a tool tip notification in a higher place the clipping icon.

Note: Currently, creating a clip is available only on iOS to a small test grouping, while playing a clip is available on all platforms to everyone.

Host instructions: How to plow off clipping

When yous start your Infinite, you'll receive a notification about what a clip is and how to turn it off, every bit clipping is on by default. You tin turn off clipping at any time. To plough information technology off, follow the instructions below.

Stride 1

 Navigate to the more  icon.

Step 2

Tap on Accommodate settings .

Step 3

Under Clips, toggle Allow clips off.

Host and speaker instructions: How to create a clipping

Step 1

In a recorded or live Space that is recorded, navigate to the clipping icon. Please note that, for live Spaces, clips volition exist publicly available on your Twitter contour afterwards your live Infinite has concluded even though the Space itself will no longer be available.

Step 2

On the Create prune pop-upwardly, go to Next.

Step 3

Preview the Tweet and add a annotate if y'all'd like, similarly to a Quote Tweet.

Stride 4

Tap on Tweet to post it to your timeline.

What controls do hosts have over existing clips?

As a host, if you turn off clipping for all Spaces from the onset, no one will be able to clip your Spaces. If you choose to turn off clipping at any point thereafter, the feature will be unavailable moving forward. To delete clips made prior to turning off the feature, you will demand to delete your Space entirely.

What controls practice clip creators accept over clips they've created?

Anyone who creates a clip can delete the prune by deleting the associated Tweet.

To delete a Tweet with a clip, navigate to the more than  icon and select Delete Tweet. For more information, read How to delete a Tweet.

Other controls over clips: how to written report, block, or mute

If y'all recall a clip violates the Twitter Rules, you can report it. On the Tweet with the clip, go to themore than  icon and select Report this Tweet. Learn more virtually reporting a Tweet.

You besides have the option to block or mute the account that Tweeted the clip. Navigate to the account's profile photo and from the more  icon, select the advisable action.

Meet below FAQs for more than information on the controls you have over your Infinite, blocking, and muting an account, and reporting an business relationship or Space.

What controls do I accept over my Space?

The host and co-host(s) of a Infinite have control over who can speak. They can mute whatever Speaker, but it is upwards to the individual to unmute themselves if they receive speaking privileges. Hosts and co-hosts tin can also remove,  report, and block others in the Space.

Speakers and listeners can written report and cake others in the Space, or tin can report the Space. If yous block a participant in the Space, you will also cake that person's account on Twitter. If the person you blocked joins as a listener, they will appear in the participant list with a Blocked label nether their business relationship name. If the person yous blocked joins as a speaker, they will also appear in the participant list with a Blocked label under their account name and you will run across an in-app notification stating, "An account you blocked has joined equally a speaker." If you are entering a Infinite that already has a blocked account as a speaker, you will also run into a warning before joining the Space stating, "You have blocked i person who is speaking."

If you are hosting or co-hosting a Space, people yous've blocked tin can't join and, if you lot're added as a co-host during a Space, anyone in the Space who you blocked will be removed from the Space.

How can I block someone in a Space?

While in a Space, tap on the business relationship's contour photograph to pull upwardly the pick bill of fare. Tap Block. This action will also block the account on Twitter. Blocking someone in a Space volition not automatically remove them from the Infinite unless you are a host or co-host of the Infinite.

How tin can I mute a speaker in a Space?

To mute a speaker in a live Space, tap on the account's profile photograph, which will pull up an choice menu. TapMute their micand you will receive an in-app notification that will let y'all know the individual has been muted. You as well have the option to mute all speakers in your Space at once.

How can I see people in my Space?

Hosts, speakers, and listeners tin can tap on the  icon to see people in a Infinite. Since Spaces are publicly accessible by anyone, it may besides be possible for an unknown number of logged-out people to heed to a Space's audio without being listed as a guest in the Space.

How tin I study a Infinite?

If you think a Infinite violates the Twitter Rules, you tin report it while in the Space past borer the more icon and tappingReport this Space. Anyone in the Space tin report it. Speakers and listeners can study a Space and any account in a Infinite.

How tin I report a person in a Space?

To report an business relationship in a Space, tap on the account's profile photograph and and so tapStudy. Y'all will then need to choose the reason for reporting the account.

How many people can speak in a Space?

For at present, a maximum of 13 people (including the host and up to 2 co-hosts) can speak at the same time.

How many people can mind in a Infinite?

At that place is no limit on the number of listeners.

What happens after a Space ends and is the data retained anywhere?

Spaces are accessible while they are live; once ended, they will no longer be available publicly on Twitter. Twitter retains copies of audio from Spaces and available captions for xxx days after a Space ends to review for violations of the Twitter Rules. If a Space is found to contain a violation, we extend the time nosotros maintain a copy for an additional 90 days (a total of 120 days afterwards a Space ends) to permit people to appeal if they believe there was a mistake. Twitter also uses Spaces content and information for analytics and research to improve the service.

Hosts may download copies of their Spaces for every bit long as we have them past using the Your Twitter Data download tool.

Links to Spaces that are shared out (e.g., via Tweet or DM) too comprise some information about the Infinite, including the description, the identity of the hosts and others in the Space, as well every bit the Space's electric current state (e.chiliad., scheduled, live, or ended). We make this and other information well-nigh Spaces available through the Twitter Developer Platform. For a detailed list of the information near Spaces we brand available, bank check out our Spaces endpoints documentation.

Who tin can end a Space?

The host of a Space has the power to end a Space. A Infinite may also finish if it is plant to be in violation of the Twitter Rules.

Does Spaces piece of work for accounts with protected Tweets?

Accounts with protected Tweets are not able to create Spaces. They are able to join and speak in other people's Spaces, and their presence will be visible to other participants.

Is Spaces accessible for people who are deaf or hard of hearing?

People in a Infinite tin tap the Show captions button to meet automated live captions (with a few seconds of delay).

Captions but announced on-screen when a person is looking at a alive Space. Nosotros do not evidence captions to a person if they have docked the Space to the bottom of their Twitter app or are off the app (although the audio will proceed to play).

How is Twitter thinking nigh accessibility?

Nosotros're collaborating internally with our accessibility teams and with an external accessibility vendor for review.

Spaces will also release with accessibility for screen readers, though like any product, we'll continue to make boosted improvements over time.

Does Spaces support captions or other accessibility options?

People in a Space can navigate to the more  icon and tap the Show captions button to see automated live captions (with a few seconds of delay).

What Spaces will feel like

Spaces Sensory Guide

A sensory guide is an accessibility tool that identifies sensory stimuli that people may meet in an environment.

Joining a Space

Sensory guide of how joining a infinite might feel.

	Audio Level	Motility Level	Imagery Level	Information Level
Receives invite via DM to join a space or sees an agile space in Fleet line or timeline	Placidity	Low	High	High
Joins space as a listener and enters a conversation	Medium	Captions off: Low; Captions on: Medium	Captions off: Medium; Captions on: High	Captions off: Medium, Captions on: Loftier
Requests speaker privileges	Medium	Depression	Medium	Medium
Unmutes self and contributes to the chat	Loud	Captions off: Low; Captions on: Medium	Caption off: Medium; Captions on: High	Caption off: Medium; Captions on: Loftier
Infinite ends or leaves conversation	Quiet	Low	Low	Low

Hosting a Space

Sensory guide of how hosting a Space might feel.

	Audio Level	Motion Level	Imagery Level	Data Level
Opens Twitter app on iOS	Quiet	Low	High	High
Taps "Kickoff Space"	Repose	Low	Medium	Captions off: Medium, Captions on: High
Names and starts Space	Repose	Low	Medium	Medium
Launches Space, begins speaking as listeners join	Medium to Loud	Captions off: Low; Captions on: Medium	Caption off: Medium; Captions on: High	Explanation off: Medium; Captions on: High
Ends Space	Quiet	Low	Low	Low

Spaces Social Narrative

A social narrative is a uncomplicated story that describes social situations and social behaviors for accessibility.

Twitter Spaces allows me to bring together or host live audio-only conversations with anyone.

Joining a Space

1. When I join a Twitter Space, that means I'll be a listener. I tin can join whatever Infinite on Twitter, fifty-fifty those hosted by people I don't know or follow.

2. I tin can join a Space past selecting a contour photo with a purple, pulsing outline at the pinnacle of my timeline, selecting a link from someone's Tweet, or a link in a Direct Message (DM).

3. In one case I'm in a Space, I can see the profile photos and names of some people in the Space, including myself.

4. I can hear one or multiple people talking at the same time. If it'due south too loud or overwhelming, I tin can turn down my book.

five. As a listener, I am not able to speak. If I desire to say something, I tin can send a request to the host. The host might non approve my request though.

6. If the host accepts my request, I volition become a speaker. Information technology may have a few seconds to connect my microphone, so I'll take to wait.

seven. Now I tin can unmute myself and speak. Anybody in the Space will be able to hear me.

8. When someone says something I want to react to, I can cull an emoji to show everyone how I feel. I will be able to encounter when other people react as well.

9. I can leave the Infinite at any time. After I leave, or when the host ends the Space, I'll go back to my timeline.

Hosting a Space

1. When I start a Infinite, that means I'll be the host. Anyone can bring together my Space, even people I don't know and people I don't follow.

2. Once I start my space, information technology may take a few seconds to be connected, then I'll accept to wait.

3. At present I'yard in my Space and I can come across my profile photo. If other logged-in, people accept joined, I will be able to see their profile photos, too.

4. I will outset out muted, which is what the microphone with a slash through it ways. I can mute and unmute myself, and anyone in my Space, at any fourth dimension.

5. I can invite people to join my Space past sending them a Straight Message (DM), sharing the link in a Tweet, and by copying the link and sharing information technology somewhere else like in an e-mail.

half-dozen. Up to x other people can have speaking privileges in my Space at the same time, and I can choose who speaks and who doesn't. People tin can too request to speak, and I can choose to approve their request or not.

7. When people bring together my Space, I may hear one or multiple people speaking at the same fourth dimension. If I think they're likewise loud, I can plough down my book or mute them.

eight. I tin revoke speaking privileges, and block, remove or study someone if they're being offensive or confusing to me or others.

9. When someone says something I want to react to, I tin can choose an emoji to show everyone how I feel. I will be able to see when other people react every bit well.

10. When I end my infinite it will finish for everyone.

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