Twitter is starting to let Spaces users create 30-second clips from their conversations.
Spaces has slowly added new features and expanded to additional platforms since its debut. Twitter originally restricted the audio-focused chat rooms to iOS in December 2020, then rolled them out to Android in March 2021, and then finally brought them to the web in May 2021.
But even those roll-outs were incomplete. Twitter didn’t let multiple people host a Space until August 2021, for example, and the ability to record a Space didn’t reach all mobile users until January 2022. (And even then it wasn’t available to Twitter’s desktop users.)
Adding support for clips is a natural development for Spaces. Twitter itself was founded on the idea of brevity—even if the service has since doubled the character limit and embraced threads—so letting Spaces users pull out 30-second clips from their conversations makes sense.
Now the question is how long it’ll take for Twitter to make clips available to other Spaces users. It’s not clear if the claim that clips are “coming to Android and web real soon” refers to creating a clip or listening to one; the company didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.
