Twitter said it will shut down Fleets, its disappearing posts feature, on August 3 after the product failed to gain traction with users.
Twitter said on Wednesday it will shut down its ephemeral posts feature called Fleets on August 3 after the product failed to gain traction with users. The shutdown comes just eight months after the social media platform rolled out Fleets to all its users globally, and just one month after it began testing advertising within the feature. In a blog post on Wednesday, Twitter said it had not seen an increase in the number of new users posting Fleets as it had hoped. “Using our learnings from Fleets, we’ll focus on creating other ways for people to join the conversation and talk about what’s happening in their world,” Twitter’s Head of Product, Brand & Video Ads, Ilya Brown wrote in the blog post.
