Twitter is experimenting with a new feature called Flock. It’s the latest in a series of features that the social media platform is trying out in the wake of Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO.

Flock is designed as a means for users to share tweets with a smaller set of followers, currently called trusted friends, in a bid to add more exclusivity to the platform.

That said, the number of trusted friends you can assign currently is rather large at 150, which seems to us to be a figure closer to what an official brand account on Twitter might use to share messaging with influencers to disseminate into the larger social media platform’s ecosystem.

#Twitter keeps working on the implementation of Twitter Flock (Trusted Friends) 👀 pic.twitter.com/roizS5K99K

— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) January 14, 2022

Along with adding up to 150 people to a list, Twitter also notes that users will be able to remove trusted friends at any time, without them being notified, which should help address any online awkwardness.

Added to this is the fact that users will be immediately notified that they have been sent a Flock tweet once it has been sent out.

For now, there is no mention of whether multiple Flocks can be created or indeed if that is the official name for the feature should Twitter plan to make it more widely available down the line.

As for other experimental features in the pipe line, as Engadget notes, when Twitter made mention of a trusted friends feature of July last year, the platform also flirted with the idea of creating multiple personas within the same account.

For now there is no update on that front, but it would prove an interesting feature to see implemented and policed. At the moment though, it is one experimental feature at a time for Twitter.

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