Micro-blogging site Twitter is working on a new feature called ‘Flock’ to allow users to post tweets to a specific group of people. The feature is similar to Instagram’s ‘Close Friends’ that lets users post stories to a group of closest friends, away from the general public.

The new Twitter feature could be highly useful as most profiles on the platform are public, and anyone view their tweets, ANI reported from Washington.

A Twitter designer had revealed the development of the feature back in July when it was being tested as ‘Trusted Friends’.

However, the development and renaming to ‘Flock’ were spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi.

Paluzzi also shared a screenshot of the Flock feature and how it works.

As per Twitter, users will be able to add up to 150 people to this close circle. Users can update this list any time they want, and others won’t be notified when they are removed from Flock.

At the moment, Twitter is yet to confirm official details and the general availability of the feature.