Twitter's ‘Communities' hopes to rival Reddit as a new alternative

(Pocket-lint) - Twitter introduced what it's calling Communities, a caller Reddit-like conception that arsenic of contiguous is some invite-only and starting retired with conscionable 4 pages, but there’s plans to grow the work wide aboriginal connected aft this archetypal proceedings run. 

Communities looks and feels a batch similar Reddit, wherever lone users of a circumstantial Community tin taxable content, similar and remark (or successful this case, subtweet oregon reply) connected different users posts each without interferring with your regular Twitter leafage and everybody else's timeline. 

At the moment, Twitter is lone starting retired with 4 Communities arsenic follows:

• #AstroTwitter 
• #DogTwitter 
• #SkincareTwitter 
• #SoleFood 

They should each beryllium beauteous self-explanatory but for #SoleFood, which is simply a spot for sneakerheads to chat incase you didn't prime up connected the pun. 

— Twitter Communities (@JoinCommunities) September 8, 2021

Currently, Twitter is manually approving Community moderators, but erstwhile the institution looks to flip the power connected a wide release, it’ll astir apt enactment akin to Reddit's strategy wherever existent moderators tin name caller ones. 

At the moment, however, absolutely anybody tin submit an casual petition to make a caller Community arsenic agelong arsenic you already person a Twitter account. If you taxable a request, Twitter says they’ll reappraisal your proposition and "take further enactment if appropriate". 

Just days ago, Twitter announced Super Followers, a caller mode for definite members to complaint users for paywalled Tweets. 

Now, with Communities being an invite-only work astatine the moment, it's wide the institution is looking to grow into a caller operating benignant wherever tons of engagement clip occurs successful hyper-specific, backstage and mostly exclusive areas of the internet. That's worked beauteous good for OnlyFans and Reddit, truthful wherefore not Twitter? 

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 9 September 2021.