Twitter ‘Fleets’ make for disappearing tweets

By Haley Victory Smith

Published November 17, 2020 9:32pm ET

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Twitter ‘Fleets’ make for disappearing tweets — Twitter unveiled on Tuesday a feature that will allow users to post images or messages that will disappear after 24 hours. These “Fleets” take inspiration from social media competitors, including Snapchat, which popularized this type of feature, and Instagram and Facebook, which followed suit with versions of their own. Technically users could already delete a […]

Twitter unveiled on Tuesday a feature that will allow users to post images or messages that will disappear after 24 hours.

These “Fleets” take inspiration from social media competitors, including Snapchat, which popularized this type of feature, and Instagram and Facebook, which followed suit with versions of their own. Technically users could already delete a tweet whenever they want, but Fleets makes it an automatic feature.

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