Twitter Spaces seems to become a more niche offering as time passes – highly valuable to those who use it, but not so much to those who don’t or, at the very least, just casually tune in every so often. So while it seems that Twitter Spaces use is getting more attention, it’s mainly on a case-to-case basis, rather than expanding overall Twitter usage.

Still, for those that do use Twitter Spaces, they evidently use it a lot, with a key feature request being the capacity to schedule multiple Spaces at one time. And now, they can! Twitter will be enabling broadcasters to schedule up to 10 Spaces at a time, up to 30 days in advance.

A Lot of Space

If you take a look at the latest Twitter posts about it, users will now be able to access a listing of ‘Upcoming Spaces’ on the platform, from which you can edit any of your planned sessions or share them via Tweet. To clarify a bit, users have been able to schedule a Spaces broadcast for over a year. Now, you’ll be able to plan out multiple sessions at once. So, if you’re one of those Spaces savants that spend a lot of hours each week tuning in, you’ll now be able to build that into your planning and keep your audience more informed about your upcoming audio events.

Despite the overall decline in audio social, just after the fleeting Clubhouse-led boom last year, Twitter has remained committed to Spaces development, adding a range of new features and tools to help improve Spaces functionality and connect users with more relevant broadcast notifications via the Spaces tab. Apparently, that tab is now being renamed to the ‘Audio’ tab, just after Twitter announced the addition of podcasts within the Spaces tab listings last month.

This could actually provide a key way to improve the Spaces experience because it will better enable Twitter to categorize Spaces broadcasts, along with established pods, maximizing exposure and helping to highlight more relevant hosts and Spaces based on topics. Podcasts and Spaces are also being shifted into ‘Stations’ within the audio tab. It might be a rather valuable addition for Twitter and the overall Tweet experience, but it’s also not great if you want to attract more people or highlight what each individual user might be specifically interested in.

The Wrap

Essentially, if you’re not into these topics and if Twitter remains unable to better filter and categorize its Spaces listings, it won’t be surprising to hear about users simply stopping to check the tab. It would be a failure on Twitter’s part in that case since it failed to connect users with the most relevant content.

Merging in podcasts could help out with this, while also helping show other potential broadcasters how they could get their content displayed within the new topic-based ‘Stations’, helping them reach new audiences with its evolving audio broadcast tools.

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