Twitter may be adding a built-in podcasts tab

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A reverse engineer posted a picture of a tab dedicated to podcasts. The image shows a microphone icon in the bottom menu bar, which appears to lead to a page aboutPodcasts.

The platform's audio-only chatrooms are not shown in the screenshot, and there is no indication of how podcasts could be displayed on the platform. It would make sense to organize live spaces into a separate tab.

When it launched Spaces in 2020 it was the first time that it branched out to audio, and it was followed by the acquisition of Breaker. Spaces is an ongoing project for the platform, which recently started letting anyone create chatrooms and allowing all mobile users to record conversations.

Tapes are a bit like podcasts, which only last 30 days. Users would be able to choose from a variety of podcasts at their leisure, with no rush to catch a live Spaces broadcast or listen to recordings before time runs out.

As social platforms look toward adding more features to potentially drive more revenue, they are just the latest to possibly grow another arm to support podcasts. Last year, Facebook launched a feature for select creators, and the same year, the site enabled recording for its audio-only Talks. A request for comment was made by The Verge, but they didn't hear back.