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| Twitter is ending Fleets eight months after its launch |
Twitter has officially shut down the fleet eight months after its launch. This came after it became clear that Snapchat-like features were not well received by users.
The hacked tweet feature, which is said to rival Snapchat Stories and Instagram Stories, has been removed after it was not launched as requested by the company.
Fleet time on the platform is short as it was tested with other platforms such as Twitter Blue and Premium Followers last year and rolled out globally in November 2020.
When news of the fleet's retirement broke last month. The official account of the platform joked: We are sorry or you are most welcome.
Fleets allows users to share tweets and photos that stay on top of the platform's app feeds for 24 hours, similar to how Stories are displayed on Instagram and Facebook.
The company announced in a blog post last month that it would be ending its fleets. He said the user did not interact with the feature as the company wanted.
"We built the fleet to share fleeting ideas," she added. We hope the fleets will help more people to confidently participate in the discussion on the platform. But since we introduced Fleet to everyone, the number of new people joining the discussion with Fleet hasn't increased as hoped.
Users can use this feature through the platform apps for Android and iOS devices. Fleets cannot be moved or public responses received. Instead, he should interact through direct messages.
Subscribers can respond to the fleet by sending private messages. However, if you want it to be consecutive or if you want the private message of the account holder to be open to everyone.
Twitter is ending Fleets after eight months
This feature has been successfully tested in Brazil and other countries before being promoted around the world, allowing users to tweet about things in a more private way, the idea being to reduce harassment of strangers across the platform. .
In the experiment, the fleet seemed to make people more willing to share public and personal thoughts, opinions, and feelings.
Twitter executives acknowledged at the time of the announcement that this format might sound familiar with reference to Snapchat.
The Fleets section shown at the top of the app has now been replaced by Spaces, a more popular feature that allows users to host rooms and chat with each other.
Last month, the platform also introduced a new feature that allows users to choose who can reply even after a tweet has been sent.
The company has been experimenting with response control since at least May 2020. Now all users can decide who can reply to their direct tweets.
People who can't reply can still see and repeat tweets, regardless of whether they post comments or likes.