Twitter Acquires Breaker to Expand its Audio Focus

Twitter's certainly putting its faith into audio connection. After launching the first wave of testing for its new, Clubhouse-style audio 'Spaces' feature last month, the company has today announced that it's acquired podcast listening app Breaker, which it will use to build out Spaces and enhance the experience.

In work news, I’m joining Twitter to help build @TwitterSpaces! 🥳 While I’ll very much miss @breaker, I’m so excited to help create the future of audio conversations. https://t.co/0Y8fkbCIFm

— Leah Culver (@leahculver) January 4, 2021

It's not entirely clear how Twitter will integrate Breaker at this stage, but Breaker co-founder Leah Culver has noted that the Breaker team will now begin work on Twitter Spaces. The Breaker app itself will shut down on Friday, January 15th.