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Communities, Twitter’s answer to Facebook groups, officially debut Wednesday after being introduced during the company’s Analyst Day in February.
Twitter users can be invited to join Communities starting Wednesday, and the first five will appear on the application and their profiles as a place to tweet about interests separate from the public timeline.
Staff product manager David Regan explained in a blog post Wednesday, “While you can tweet only to your Community for a focused conversation, Community pages and timelines are publicly available so anyone can read, quote tweet and report Community tweets. We want to continue to support public conversation and help people find Communities
that match their interests, while also creating a more intimate space for conversation.”
The feature debuts with Communities on astrology, dogs, skincare, sneakers and weather. Only people in a Community can like or reply to tweets, and new members must be invited by moderators or existing members.
Moderators can determine internal rules and set the tone for conversations in their Communities, and some of the ones debuting Wednesday will be moderated by leading creators in each space.
Twitter said it will test and learn from the initial Communities prior to adding more, and people can let the social network know here if they are interested in creating a community.
While the feature is debuting as invite-only, the company said it is working on ways to enable users to discover and join Communities they are interested in.
