Launched in 2021 , when the company was still known as Twitter, Communities were meant to provide the social network’s users with a place to connect with each other around shared interests. Now, X is shutting down the feature for good, saying it was overrun with spam and a headache to manage. Plus, noted X’s head of product Nikitia Bier, hardly anyone was using them. “Communities had a great vision, but they were used by less than 0.4% of users—yet contributed to 80% of spam r…
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