Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Twitter launches ‘Fleets’ involving temporary story-like posts

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Twitter has launched a new ‘fleets’ feature that involves story-like posts that last for only 24 hours. The feature introduces ephemeral, which will allow users to post texts, photos, videos, and tweets for a day. It was first announced and tested earlier this year. However, users seemed to be clueless about ‘fleets’, as Twitter does … Read more

Twitter tests feature to limit sharing on unread articles

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Social media giant Twitter announced it was testing a new feature that will limit the sharing of articles by users who haven’t read them. The feature appears to be aimed at slowing the spread of unverified information. It will ask the users whether they have read an article before they retweet it. “Sharing an article … Read more

Twitter Fleets: Memes show netizens mocking for following the same old drill

Twitter Fleets

Twitter, after a long testing period, rolled out a new feature that will allow tweets to disappear after 24 hours. The new feature from Twitter, called “fleets” is similar to vanishing posts on Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp Stories. India, only the third country in the world (after Brazil and Italy) to implement it, Twitter Fleets … Read more

Twitter to expand its test with disappearing content to Italy

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With ongoing harassment any bullying incidents on Twitter, the company took bold steps to reducing harassment. This will not limit users, but the move is to disappear content. Twitter gives first ever updates regarding Fleets, the stories-like feature which has been testing in Brazil since early March. Fleets will expand to Italy after more than … Read more

#RIPTwitter trends amid Twitter’s ‘Fleets’ feature announcement

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Twitter is testing a feature that will allow some tweets to disappear after 24 hours. The new feature from Twitter, called “fleets” is similar to vanishing posts on Snapchat and Instagram Stories. Moreover, the changes prompted the hashtag #RIPTwitter to trend. Users complained the new feature would make the micro-blogging site too similar to other … Read more