Twitter shutting down Fleets, its new Stories product, on August 3 after low adoption.
Fleets, Twitter's take on Instagram and Snapchat's ephemeral Stories, launched in Nov 2020. Twitter is retiring Fleets due to low usage. They were hoping Fleets would increase the number of new people joining conversations, instead it was being used by those already most active on the platform. They will use the area at the top of their timelines to display Twitter Spaces, Twitter's live audio chat rooms. Link
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