Last year, Twitter showed an early concept of a feature called Trusted Friends. As the name suggests, this feature allows you to tweet to a close group of friends, instead of spamming all your followers.
Twitter showed the Trusted Friends feature late last year
This pre-announced feature now has a new name - Flock. Reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi has dug up parts of the feature and posted examples on his Twitter page. As you can see from the screenshots, Twitter Flock allows users to add up to 150 people to this privileged group.
It’s worth noting that people will get a notification when they have been added to somebody’s Flock but won’t get one if they’ve been removed. The idea behind this feature is quite logical and it’s been implemented in other social networks such as Instagram (Close Friends).
Twitter Friends has been renamed to Twitter Flock
Unfortunately, there’s no official information about a potential rollout date, or whether this feature will be available across all platforms from the get go. Chances are you’d need to use the official Twitter app on your mobile to get the Flock feature (when it’s officially released).
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