Twitter Opens Up Spaces Hosting to All Users on iOS and Android Twitter is looking to take the next steps with voice social push by expanding Spaces that host all users in the app.

So far, the option to host the space has been limited to those with at least 600 followers. All Twitter users were able to tune into Spaces conversations, but only those who crossed the 600-follower threshold were able to start their own podcast.

Now, it will be all in — which is a good thing in a way, as it will provide an increased ability for people to communicate in more formats on the platform. But it adds more of a challenge in another, because while giving everyone access to such options sounds great, the actual logistical and technical process of directing the audience to the most relevant discussions, in real-time, becomes much more difficult when there are many conversations. Happen or occur.

Twitter is still working on this – it added Topics for Spaces last month to help increase matching Spaces for interested users, which has been tweaked again this week with the added ability to Edit tagged topics in tabular spaces.

It also still rolls out the Spaces tab to more users, which will better highlight ongoing chats, at any time of the day, in line with your registered interests (who you follow, topics, etc.).

This would, ideally, help Twitter get the most value out of the option, by showing each user the best and most relevant chats. But again, with more broadcasters going online, which inevitably means more bad broadcasters, and spammers well, it’s going to take some effort to improve its system’s filters and make sure it can put the best spaces for you on your feed.

This is where Facebook would likely take a better approach, by rolling out its audio rooms only for celebrities and influencers, and within groups (and also now specific SMB pages), which would better enable it to ensure that users see only audio rooms relevant to them. Reddit has also taken a similar tack with its audio social option – so while Twitter and Clubhouse seem to be the leaders in the audio social space at the moment, it remains to be seen if people will still be interested in the option if both apps don’t be able to continue. Provide the link to the most relevant content.

If people head to the Spaces tab and find junk, it won’t take long for them to stop trying. The same goes for Clubhouse. Facilitating broader connectivity is one thing, but sorting the wheat from the chaff is another key element, and we’ve already seen with the rise, and then the decline of live video, that this is going to happen, and people will stop paying attention and signing up on these apps and platforms if all they’re seeing is the same rubbish over and over again.

Which is quite logical, and Twitter is still far from correcting this element.

So while it’s nice to see spaces expand to more people, it also adds to Twitter’s challenges in sorting audio content for higher consumption.