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   Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley joins the Live show to discuss   
   Twitter’s new ‘Circle’ feature.   
      
   Video Transcript   
   [MUSIC PLAYING]   
      
   AKIKA FUJITA: Twitter is testing the waters with a new feature   
   that gives users the option to share their tweets amongst a   
   select group of people. For a deeper dive on this, let's bring   
   in Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley. Twitter Circle is what we're   
   talking about.   
      
   DAN HOWLEY: Twitter Circle. You need more confusion on Twitter   
   because it's not confusing enough. And that might be why there's   
   not a lot of people on there. But to give you an idea of what   
   Twitter Circle is, think of it as a smaller version of Twitter,   
   right?   
      
   It's basically meant-- it's in testing right now. It's for iOS,   
   Android, web. They'll give you an invite if you manage to sneak   
   in. Or you can tell if you're on when you go to draft a tweet   
   and it asks you if you want to send it to a smaller group of   
   folks. Basically, what it is, is you can invite up to 150   
   people, or just sign them up to your circle. You can then send   
   tweets directly to that circle so that if you just want--   
      
   AKIKA FUJITA: It kind of feels like WhatsApp.   
      
   DAN HOWLEY: Kind of, yeah, right? Exact--   
      
   - Or GroupMe?   
      
   DAN HOWLEY: Yeah.   
      
   - It could be like GroupMe.   
      
   DAN HOWLEY: Or any, like, other social networks.   
      
   [LAUGHING]   
      
   And so you'll be able to send out tweets. You can discuss   
   whatever you want. It will not show up on your main feed. It   
   will not show up on any of your followers main feeds. They can   
   retweet you, but only those tweets-- or those tweets will only   
   show up in the circle.   
      
   - Right.   
      
   DAN HOWLEY: So it'll never leave that area unless someone   
   screenshots it or copy and pastes it or whatever. So it's meant   
   to be a place where you can feel more comfortable talking, I   
   guess. But, you know, I mean, I don't know what I would say on   
   Twitter that I wouldn't really say outside of it.   
      
   - So I guess the use case for this is if it's large enough of a   
   community that you couldn't have just an iMessage group or a   
   text message thread. But it also has to be small enough that you   
   wouldn't just rely on Reddit or any other type of board to do   
   this. So do you think this is going to catch on? Because look,   
   we all remember Fleets, which I-- which, for the record, I was a   
   huge fan of. Super disappointing they killed it.   
      
   AKIKA FUJITA: I mean, it was such a short-lived feature.   
      
   - It was-- It was as fleeting as the product itself.   
      
   AKIKA FUJITA: Well, I mean, I wasn't-- it's too easy. I wasn't   
   going to go there. Yeah.   
      
   DAN HOWLEY: Look, I do think that there's-- there's some utility   
   here. I don't think that it's going to be a major product for   
   Twitter. And look, when Elon Musk comes in, you know, he might   
   just say, I don't know. This is dumb. We'll get rid of it.   
      
   So it may or may not last long. But my thinking is, you know,   
   I'm playing a game called "Elden Ring" right now, right? If I   
   want to talk exclusively about "Elden Ring," I can invite a   
   bunch of people, and then we could just chat about it, you know,   
   and I can--   
      
   - But there's Discord.   
      
   DAN HOWLEY: That's true. But I don't like Discord. I don't want   
   to talk to people. I don't want that. I want to just be able to   
   write to them. Don't talk to me.   
      
   AKIKA FUJITA: By the way, I saw a photo the other day of   
   somebody holding a sign that said, Elon, bring Vine back, which   
   I think a lot of people would be on board with. This idea,   
   though, you know, when you think back to what social media was--   
   right? I mean, obviously, Facebook started with colleges. But   
   something like Twitter, it was about connecting with people that   
   you don't know.   
      
   DAN HOWLEY: Right, on a smaller scale.   
      
   AKIKA FUJITA: You can connect with somebody on the other side of   
   the world. And it feels like because of the environment on   
   social media today, we're all turning inward again.   
      
   DAN HOWLEY: Yeah, I mean, look, I think that this kind of   
   feature is interesting in that it does allow you to connect with   
   people of similar interests, right? I think that for Twitter,   
   especially, I've said-- I said it yesterday. Twitter is just a   
      
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