Twitter circles can be accessible to many users

Sometimes, we have ideas that we want to put somewhere, but not everyone wants to read. This is exactly the reason why I use Instagram’s Close Friends feature launched in 2018. If you want to upload a story, but you only want to see it with a small group of close acquaintances, this allows you to do so – they are like normal stories, except those highlighted in green. Twitter is working on almost the same feature, but for your tweets, it’s called a circle. Now, after initial testing, this feature seems to have been widely rolled out to users.

When logging in to Twitter, from a browser, or from your smartphone, some users start seeing pop-ups asking you to tweet in their circles. Entering the “Compose Tweet” panel and tapping the viewer button at the top will give you a new “Twitter Circle” option. You can add and remove people from your circles by tapping the “Edit” button – people will not be notified if someone is added or removed from their circles. Similarly, if you see a tweet posted in someone’s circle, you will also see a green notification that you know that only people in their circle can see that post.

As with Instagram, it allows you to fix the audience of certain posts so that you can tweet more personal content to your close friends without paying attention to your Twitter followers. Some people keep separate, private accounts for the same purpose, where they will not only allow friends to follow them but will eliminate the need to do so. Still, close friends haven’t missed the phenomenon of “Finsta,” or fake Instagram accounts, so we’ll see how behaviors change here.

Some people have not yet seen this feature in their accounts, indicating that this could be a phased rollout. But, we have to reach everyone soon. It’s just a matter of time.