Twitter's audio-only chatrooms, Spaces, aren't yet available to everyone. They're currently limited to a small group of users as the platform works out all the kinks.

If you've been lucky enough to test them, you'd know that there's no way to play back any conversation you weren't able to catch live. It looks like that's about to change soon, though.

Twitter to Implement Native Recording in Its Spaces

In an interview with The Verge, Twitter head of consumer product Kayvon Beykpour revealed that the company plans to soon add a way to record the live sessions you have on Twitter Spaces, right in the app or on the website.

Beykpour said he believes it should be a choice users have—if the host of a Twitter Space thinks a conversation is worth recording, an option should be available to save the audio. That said, he notes that there's a tricky consent issue at hand.

"I also think that the notion of letting the audience pick sound bites and share them as clips could be really, really powerful. Now, the challenge with that is you have a sort of a really challenging consent issue because you have the host’s intent in mind of, does the host want this conversation to be preserved or shared? [Then] there’s the speakers, who are a different actor than the host. Their consent is really important."

At the moment, live sessions in Spaces are recorded and retained for 30 days, but only for moderation purposes. The Twitter Help Center says that hosts can download a copy of their Space data as long as Twitter still has it. The same goes for transcriptions of what was said, if you have the setting turned on.

Twitter's audio app competitor, Clubhouse, records conversations as well, but the data only kept while the room is still live.

While Clubhouse is undoubtedly the leading social media platform right now in terms of the implementation of live audio chatrooms, it's currently only available for iOS. Twitter launched Spaces on Android last week, beating Clubhouse to the punch.

Sometimes, when you call a business or government office, you'll hear the automation service say "this call may be recorded." Twitter could implement something similar in its Spaces upon worldwide launch. Perhaps a popup or warning of some kind, just to ensure that all users in a live session have consented to their audio being saved.

Of course, that's just a suggestion. It's of utmost importance that everyone involved in an audio recording gives their consent, so it's good to see that Twitter is working on a way to make sure of exactly that.