Twitter Shuts Down Controversial Feature
twitter is shutting down fleets it's expiring tweets feature i know nothing about fleets other than the fact that random people send them to me yeah they're kind of like uh stories that expire 24 hours so they're stories yes but but people can send them to one another are people sending me fleets or are they no no wait a second well you got them so people are sending them right no no because i never click on them it would just say like some random username has mentioned you in their fleets or something along these lines that i will never click on so maybe you could tag people i'm yeah probably just shows up so everybody who had to have the stories i'm surprised that twitter says bye bye yeah that it didn't do too well eventually the row of full screen tweets at the top of your twitter timeline that expire after 24 hours starting on august 3rd users will instead see active spaces so they go with spaces they're like we're gonna make our put our bet on spaces and forget about fleets oh wait a second wait the composer for traditional tweets will be updated with more camera editing features from fleets like text formatting and gif stickers over photos twitter's decision to axe fleets is not just an admission that the feature didn't work but that the company still hasn't figured out how to get people tweeting more for years twitter has struggled to get new users to post regularly and not just consume other people's tweets yeah fleece was its shot at using stories the popular social media format invented by snapchatting for the popularized by instagram yeah i mean can i there is a thing with social media ads where they all end up doing everything and and it can just be overwhelming and intimidating to the point where you're like uh it can lose sight of the core focus so but anyway it appears they've probably done the internal analysis and realized that spaces is a bigger opportunity for them considering the fact that anyone posting story like content is probably doing it on instagram at this point or snapchat or facebook facebook has stories too yeah man it's a lot of stories who can watch all these stories