Twitter on Wednesday made its Communities feature available to Android users around the world.
The option, launched on iOS and the Web in September 2021, lets users tweet within a group about a specific topic. The feature is similar to Facebook Groups but remains more public-facing.
Within Communities, «people can Tweet directly to a specific audience instead of to all their followers, and only those in the Community can like and reply,» the company said in a press release, although, for now anyway, their tweets remain public.
The feature is still in beta testing, but since its debut, Communities have already developed around Roblox, Cryptocurrency, Xbox, R&B music and Formula 1 racing, among other topics.
Twitter users have to be invited to join a Community through direct message. Each Community has Twitter-approved moderators who establish and enforce group rules and invite others to join the conversation.
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