Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is disabling its Circle feature — bringing an end to its glitchy history — The feature allowed users to share a post only with a set of people.
It was the social network’s take on Instagram’s “Close Friends” feature.
As of Oct. 31, Twitter/X users will no longer be able to restrict their posts to their personally curated Circle confidants, nor add new users to that list. Instead, all future Twitter/X posts will be delivered to your followers and the wider public, whether they’re professional announcements about your career achievements or carnal fantasies about your favorite celebrity.
PSA: we’re disabling Circles by October 31.
more info → https://t.co/sHY9l6SUFw
— Support (@Support) September 21, 2023
The company will still let people look at their historical Circle posts after the deadline date.
Twitter first launched the Circle feature in August 2022, after testing it in beta for a few months. The company let people add 150 people to their Circle. Users were allowed to create only one Circle.
Earlier this year, users started noticing that their Circle posts were not labeled with a green flag, causing them to believe that the post went out to all of their followers. While this was just a scare, in April, users reported that some of their Circle posts started appearing on other people’s For You algorithmic timelines. In May, the company confirmed this bug as a “security incident” that might have “users outside of your Twitter Circle” to look at Circle posts.
