- By Ashish Singh
- Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:35 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
X (formerly Twitter), the tech giant run by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, recently announced that it will phase out its popular Circles feature on its social networking site by October 31, 2023. The Circles function, similar to Instagram's Close Friends feature, allowed users to construct select groups of up to 150 people for limited and private chats.
Users will still be able to unfollow users to remove them from their Circles. The company claims that the process is straightforward: Visit the account that is in your Circles and unfollow it. They'll be taken out of your Circle. Any of your past Circle Posts are no longer visible to them. If you follow them once again, they won't be included in your Circle.
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"Circles will be phased out by X on October 31, 2023. After this date, you will no longer be able to create new Circle-only posts, nor will you be able to add people to your Circle," the company stated in a recent update.
In August 2022, Circles was introduced by Twitter (not X Corp), under the name "Circle." Before making its services available to a larger audience, the social media juggernaut ran preliminary testing on a small number of users. One interesting feature of Circles was that people in a user's Circle couldn't repost their posts, but they could still take screenshots of tweets to keep them.
The decision by X to stop supporting Circles is in line with the company's change in emphasis towards "Communities," a feature that resembles Facebook Groups. This new feature emphasises a sense of belonging and common interests among users in an effort to promote closer-knit online groups and communities.
