Released in 2021When the company was still known as Twitter, communities were intended to provide users of the social network with a place to connect with each other around shared interests. Now, X is closing the feature forever, saying it was overrun with spam and was a pain to manage.
Furthermore, Nikitia Bier, product manager at X, pointed out that almost no one used them.
“Communities had great insight but were used by less than 0.4% of users, yet they contributed to 80% of spam, financial scams and malware reports on X,” Bier. wrote at X, explaining the company’s thinking behind removing the high-profile feature.
“Of the handful of communities that were successful, most were user acquisition channels for Kick or compensated clipper communities.”
In other words, communities were often not used for their original purpose. Instead, they had become a place focused on driving (often paid) traffic to other online creators outside of
Bier even mocked X’s failed Communities project as a “Temu version of subreddits,” a reference to the groups found within the most popular interest-based social network, Reddit.
However, he noted that there were some good communities in the mix that will have to migrate elsewhere, but largely suggested that the feature was not worth maintaining given its overall low usage.
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Communities on X will close on May 6, 2026. Until then, community administrators can migrate their members to the newly revamped group chat experience.
To prepare for the influx of Community These public links can be shared on the X timeline and pinned, and support up to 350 members per chat. The group chat may support even more members in the future, Bier suggested.
Despite these changes, Bier noted that X is not giving up on the communities; the company will simply take a different approach.
In addition to expanded group chats, the company this week launched Custom Timelines for its Premium subscriberswhich allow users to pin different themed feeds to their Home tab. These feeds are also curated and customized for each individual user, based on how they interact with X.
X’s product releases and updates have accelerated lately, and X’s plans for your XChat app and another for paymentsplus new features like cash tags, mute buttons for topics, voice notes in chatto new photo editor, automatic translations, new response configurationand new custom timelines.
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