Twitter is shutting down Fleets, its expiring tweets feature
Twitter just rolled out Fleets to everyone in November. | Twitter Say goodbye to Fleets, the row of fullscreen tweets at the top of the Twitter timeline that expire after 24 hours. The ephemeral tweet format is shutting down due to low usage after launching widely just eight months ago.
Starting on August 3rd, users will instead just see active Spaces - Twitter's live audio chat rooms - at the top of their timelines. And the composer for traditional tweets will be updated with more camera editing features from Fleets, like text-formatting and GIF stickers over photos.
We haven't seen an increase in the number of new people joining the conversation with Fleets like we hoped."
Twitter's decision to axe Fleets is not just an admission that the feature didn't work, but that the company still hasn't...