Circles: X pulls the plug on the Circles characteristic: All the small print

Circles, a characteristic on X, which allowed customers to restrict their posts to a sure group of individuals goes away for good. The social media platform introduced this in a publish on its web site. “X is deprecating Circles as of Oct thirty first, 2023. After this date, you will be unable to create new posts which are restricted to your Circle, nor will you be capable to add individuals to your Circle. You’ll, nevertheless, be capable to take away individuals out of your Circle, by unfollowing them,” stated X within the publish. The platform — previously generally known as Twitter — additionally knowledgeable customers about the best way to take away individuals from their Circles.

Find out how to take away individuals from Circles

Twitter Circles — that’s what it was referred to as when launched — is a characteristic that permits customers to create a gaggle of as much as 150 individuals and share tweets with that group solely. Tweets shared with a Twitter Circle will seem with a inexperienced badge beneath them and may solely be seen by the individuals within the circle. They can’t be retweeted or shared exterior of the circle, and all replies to those tweets are non-public, even when the Twitter account is public.
Twitter Circles was meant to make sure that customers may have extra private conversations with a choose group of individuals, corresponding to shut mates, household, or colleagues. It may also be used to share extra delicate content material that you do not wish to share with the world.
X hasn’t given any official cause on why it has determined to cast off Circles.