Twitter on Monday acquired the podcast app Breaker to work on its audio-based project Twitter Spaces to expertise in its audio experiences.
Asiya S
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Twitter on Monday acquired the podcast app Breaker to work on its audio-based project Twitter Spaces to expertise in its audio experiences. This deal will also help to improve the health of public conversation on this platform, according to Twitter. Breaker app will shut down its platform on January 15, allowing time for their users to move their subscriptions and podcasts to other forms of listening. Financial dealings between the two are not yet disclosed.
The co-founder of the four-year old Breaker app Leah Culver tweeted that they are joining with Twitter to build Twitter Spaces which was later announced by another co-founder Erik Berlin that they will help Twitter to create new experiences.
Breaker app for smartphones powered by Apple or Google-backed Android software help users to find and listen to different podcasts of their own choices. It also had certain community element with features such as liking and commenting episodes.
Twitter recently began Spaces where users can create a very small group which was described as online venues "built around the voices of the people" using Twitter where people could share thoughts, send emojis and more. According to a blog post, as many as 10 people can be invited to speak in Twitter Spaces and there is no limit on the number of people who can listen to them.
Twitter is hoping to expand the list of people who can create Spaces over time and to create new experience to user.