What you've likely heard about Twitter Spaces is only the half of it. Although it has been host to a botched presidential campaign launch and a fallen crypto founder’s farewell tour, its esoteric charms have taken hold in other corners of the platform. Since Twitter debuted the Clubhouse competitor in 2021, the audio chat feature, like Clubhouse itself, has lost a lot of the cultural cache it had back when Covid-19 forced people to find creative substitutes for connection without physically meeting up. Yet amid this quiet period in social audio—most experiments like Spotify Live and Reddit Talk have shuttered, and everyone’s horny for AI these days—one group, long at the forefront of critical shifts in technology and the way it’s utilized, has leveraged Spaces for information-swapping, community-building, and mundane enjoyment: sex workers.
