Twitter is now letting everyone record their Spaces

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What you need to know

Twitter is now letting everyone record their Spaces.
Hosts of Spaces can now record them by pressing the 'Record Space' button.
Spaces will be available for 30 days after they end.

Social network Twitter has expanded on a feature that is rolled out to a limited number of Spaces users last month. Now, everyone who hosts a Space can choose to record it with that recording hanging around for 30 days.

Those wishing to record their space can tap a new 'Record Space' button to get the ball rolling. Twitter says that public playback of the new recording will be available for 30 days after the original Space came to an end. An option to manually delete a recording sooner than the 30-day period can also do that, too.

Another update on Spaces Recording:

The option for hosts to record is now available for everyone on Android and iOS! When starting a Space, tap the “Record Space” switch to have it available for public playback for 30 days once the Space has ended. pic.twitter.com/fYzaOjQJlFAnother update on Spaces Recording:

The option for hosts to record is now available for everyone on Android and iOS! When starting a Space, tap the “Record Space” switch to have it available for public playback for 30 days once the Space has ended. pic.twitter.com/fYzaOjQJlF— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 13, 2022 January 13, 2022

All of this is available via the iOS app of course, with third-party Twitter apps still out in the cold. Whether the Twitter app is the best iPhone app for using the social network or not, it's definitely the only place where the option to host a Space is available to iPhone users. Playback of Spaces is supported via the web version of Twitter, however.

Recording Spaces is a great way to allow people to listen back to those that they participated in. It's also a wonderful way to allow those who couldn't make the live Space a chance to listen in after the fact, too.

If you aren't yet using the official Twitter app you can download it from the App Store right now — it's free.

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.