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The creators of Breaker, a podcast app, are now working for Twitter.
They announced on Monday that their platform launched in 2016 will stop working on January 15.
The team will now work on the development of Spaces, an audio feature tested by the social network since last December.
The latter should allow group audio exchanges in dedicated discussion spaces.
The recruitment and buyout strategy carried out by Twitter aims to "improve the state of public conversations" on the platform, explained Michael Montano, the chief engineer of the company, quoted by the media Engadget.
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Breaker co-founder Leah Culver shared her "satisfaction with helping to create the future of audio conversations."
She also specified joining the Twitter teams in order to "help build […] Spaces".
Neither the social network nor the co-creators of Breaker, Leah Culver and Erik Berlin, have given details as to the detailed nature of their missions or the precise form that Spaces will take.
“We continue to find ways for people to communicate better,” Erik Berlin said in a blog post.
Thank you all so much for your kind words.
🥰 I'm excited to start a new chapter in 2021.
- Leah Culver (@leahculver) January 4, 2021
Growing interest in the audio format
Breaker had distinguished itself in the podcast app market by allowing its users to like and comment on episodes.
Twitter, meanwhile, already offered an audio tweet feature.
Like many digital giants, the microblogging platform has therefore decided to invest more in the audio format.
As Presse-Citron points out, Amazon, Google and Spotify have recently bought companies or launched dedicated podcast applications.
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