Twitter’s new ‘fleets’ gets the side-eye as users demand edit option instead

Chennai: Twitter announced that it was introducing a new feature in Brazil that would allow users to post ephemeral tweets that disappear in 24 hours. The popular ‘stories’ feature of Instagram is what Twitter was going for with ‘Fleets’ but twitterati are none too impressed.

To compose a fleet, users must tap the + icon and upload text, photos, videos and GIFs. Anybody can see a user’s fleets but one can only respond via DM and not by liking, retweeting or sharing.