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X is closing its Communities feature in May, X Head of Product Nikita Bier has announced.
Key facts
- Communities had a great vision, but they were used by less than 0.4% of users, yet contributed to 80% of spam reports, financial scams, and malware on X," Bier said in a separate post
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- X's proposed replacement for Communities is its new XChat app, which can currently host group chats of up to 350 people, and will be expanded to support group chats of up to 1,000 people
- X is closing its Communities feature in May, X Head of Product Nikita Bier has announced
Summary
"Communities had a great vision, but they were used by less than 0.4% of users, yet contributed to 80% of spam reports, financial scams, and malware on X," Bier said in a separate post. — Nikita Bier April 22, 2026. X's proposed replacement for Communities is its new XChat app, which can currently host group chats of up to 350 people, and will be expanded to support group chats of up to 1,000 people in the future, Bier says. While that could keep groups together, a live group chat is fairly different from the asynchronous, separate-timeline-of-posts experience that Communities offered.