Twitter Cancels ‘Fleets’ Just Months After Launch
Twitter in November debuted a new ephemeral tweet option called “Fleets,” with the feature designed to compete with Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories, Snapchat, and more. Fleets apparently did not catch on, because Twitter today announced that Fleets are being discontinued as of August 3, which is less than a year after the feature launched. Twitter says that it had hoped Fleets would…