X, formerly Twitter, is rolling out a new option to allow users to share their community posts with all followers. This is very similar to posting a message to a thread in the entire Slack channel.
An X engineer announced the feature through a post saying that it is available first to iOS users and will soon be available on the web and Android. Users who want to broadcast a community post can check the “Also send to followers” option while posting to a community. The publication will also be visible on the author's profile.
Since the platform's communities are public, users can see the post. But unless they are part of that community, they can't respond to you. If users want to interact with a community post that was broadcast, they can quote it. It's unclear if the social network will give communities any option to block broadcasts.
In recent months, X has focused on making improvements to communities and adding new features to better compete with others like Reddit and Facebook. The company have allowed post ranking for pinned communities, a way to highlight your community on your profilethe ability to private accounts to join communities.
In October, X launched a control feature that allowed administrators of restricted communities to have people answer a few questions before joining. Depending on the answers to those questions, administrators might allow them if they want to let people in.
Until now, X restricts community creation to Premium accounts. However, in October, the company opened community creation for users in Japan. The social network has also been Showcasing posts from their united communities to the algorithmic feed (“For you”) for the past few months.
