Since the time-limited Stories format gained popularity on social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram, Twitter introduced a similar Story-like feature called Fleets. The company rolled it out to the public last year, enabling them to share ephemeral content that disappears after 24 hours. However, the company has now announced to shut down Fleets due to low usage.
Twitter recently announced to remove Fleets from its platform via an official tweet. As per the official statement, the company would remove Fleets starting from August 3. You can check out the tweet attached right below.
we’re removing Fleets on August 3, working on some new stuff
However, it is worth noting that Twitter wrote that it is “working on some new stuff” for its platform. It might be a reference to Twitter Spaces and the recently-shared concept features relating to privacy and user discoverability. Hence, we can expect the company to release new features for Twitter in the coming weeks.
