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Twitter appears to be working on a feature that lets you share tweets with a specific group of people (via Input). If this sounds familiar, it’s because Instagram’s Close Friends feature lets you do the exact same thing — but in Twitter’s case, you’ll be limiting your tweets to your “Flock.”
Twitter first gave us a glimpse of the feature last July, which it called “Trusted Friends” at the time. Since then, mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi has been keeping track of Twitter’s progress, and it’s really starting to take shape.
#Twitter continues to work on Twitter Flock by adding an explanation of how it works
ℹ️ You can choose up to 150 people to include in your Twitter Flock
ℹ️ People won’t be notified if you remove them from the…