Beykpour: Twitter 'Shamelessly' Took Inspiration from Clubhouse for Spaces
“When Clubhouse kind of came on the map, it really re-centered, it put into focus a user experience that felt a lot more right, and I'll give them complete credit for that. They, you know, Paul and Rohan and that team did an exceptional job crafting an experien…”
Beykpour: Twitter Made Spaces Its Top Priority Company-Wide
“Hydro went from this like tiny project that like six people were working on that no one knew or care about to we made space as the number one priority of the company literally like above any other project period.”
Figma hosted an open Twitter Space to address the Adobe acquisition backlash
“And so I remember we decided that day that the next day we just had to have an open public forum where we could talk directly with our users and let them ask us any questions. And so we'd have the Twitter space the next day with Dylan and show Raji and Tom.”
Sacks co-hosted Ron DeSantis's 2024 presidential campaign launch on Twitter Spaces
“The DeSantis campaign connected with Twitter and Elon and I agreed to kind of co-host the space.”
Sacks: Previous record Twitter Spaces audience was roughly 100,000 listeners
“The engineers there told me that the previous order of magnitude was more like a 100,000, not a million.”
Calacanis: Twitter Spaces was a rushed product built to counter Clubhouse
“Twitter Spaces was really a rush job at Twitter. They did that in reaction to Clubhouse.”
Chamath: Twitter Spaces questioned SBF better than any mainstream journalist
“The Twitter spaces yesterday did a better job of trying to ask questions and getting to the truth than a single journalist has done, or the collective body of all of journalists.”
Paul Davison dismisses Twitter Spaces as a broadcast product, unlike Clubhouse
“Twitter is doing what they've done in the past, which is helping people broadcast to other people. And I think that, you know, the they've done a fine job at that, and it's pretty different from what I think we target at Clubhouse. And I can talk more about th…”
Shamani: Creators can boost organic reach by adopting platforms' newest features
“If they want to grow organically, they should use the new features, which platform is promoting. Let's say if you want to grow, if you want to grow on YouTube, use live streaming. If you want to grow on Twitter, use spaces. If you want to grow on Instagram, us…”