Twitter may soon launch Flock, a feature similar to Instagram’s Close Friends that will allow you to share updates with a closed group of contacts on the microblogging platform.
From what has been shown so far about the feature, Twitter users will be able to select up to 150 friends to add to Flock at once.
This feature first appeared in July last year. At the time, Twitter referred to it as “Trusted Friends” and introduced it as a design concept for the service.
Since then, mobile engineer Alessandro Paluzzi has been tracking his progress. Paluzzi’s recent sharing now gives us more details on how this feature can work.
As seen by The Verge, Paluzzi has come out with more details on Twitter Flock and its performance in the new tweet.
Like a series of screenshots shared by the developer, Twitter Flock will be very similar to the Close Friends option on Instagram.
Twitter users will be asked to choose whether they want their tweet to be public or restricted to their Group, at the time of posting.
Screenshots also show that there will be a limit of 150 contacts on Twitter Flock. Once users have sent a tweet to their Group, only people listed will be able to see the tweet in their timeline or reply to it.
These tweets will also have a message, “You can see this Tweet because the author added you to their Twitter Flock.” This is a slightly wider exposure of the Flock feature, compared to the simple Green border used to display posts to close friends on Instagram.
In case users want someone who is not on their Flock list, they will be able to do so without notifying the group at all.
Twitter’s says removing a contact from the herd will not send any kind of notice to anyone, thus keeping the decision confidential, as a group.
Like other forums that have such functionality, Twitter is now focused on ways to allow its users to share information privately.
In an interview with The Verge, a Twitter spokesman declined to comment further on the Flock feature from now on, although he confirmed that ‘Twitter Flock’ is “just a proxy name.”
Therefore, we can expect to see performance with a different name when it comes live on the platform.
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