Fleets: Everything You Need to Know About Twitter’s Disappearing Tweets
It’s common wisdom that the internet is forever. Country superstar Brad Paisley even wrote a song about it , for goodness sakes. But Twitter, with its new Fleets feature , dares to disagree. Rolled out to users worldwide November 2020, Fleets are a way to post content on Twitter that will disappear after 24 hours. Reactions so far have been… mixed. It's very meta how everyone stopped caring about Fleets after 24 hours. — Monty Ashley (@monty_ashley) November 27, 2020 ok all of your fleets are excellent, it's like having access to an exclusively wholesome take-free alt twitter whenever I like and I'm begging you to keep it that way — Hannah Malcolm (@hannahmmalcolm) November 27, 2020 I ain watch 10 fleets since this feature come out — Duke (@Dxke_fz) December 9, 2020 Finally updated twitter. Re: fleets pic.twitter.com/PJTJ5sqSat — Jenn Adams (@jennferatu) December 8, 2020 Seriously, what are fleets? It’s like I’m in an episode of Star Trek where ...