Fleets is a Stories clone , borrowing all the best ideas

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You can share text, reply to others’ tweets, or post videos with the same background color and overlay text options you get on other messaging apps with ephemeral features, with each message disappearing after 24 hours. You can also reply to other people's Fleets by tapping on one and sending a direct message or emoji to the creator, which will start a DM (direct message) conversation similar to the process of replying to a Story on Instagram. Twitter says it will also introduce stickers and live streaming at some point in the future. However, you can't like or retweet a Fleet.

Right now, the company says there will be no oman email list indicator if someone screenshots one of your Fleets, and anyone who follows you will be able to see what you're "fleeting" by visiting your profile if they don't immediately see your bubble at the top of the timeline.

So it’s not quite right to think of Fleets as a cure-all for social media’s outrage culture or the platform’s propensity to direct a large number of individual shares at a single target—what we colloquially call “getting a ratio” or stacking or canceling or whatever name or phrase you want to attach to briefly become an internet punching bag. Someone can always save what you post for posterity, repost it themselves, and say something. Alternatively, if you say something stupid, there’s nothing stopping others from spreading it through the traditional tweet channel via screenshots and further retweeting those screenshots and criticizing you.


What Fleets seems likely to help most, at least initially, is break up the volume of opinions trafficked on Twitter every minute of every day into more digestible formats. This could spark changes in how we communicate on the platform. No doubt, some users will try to push the boundaries of what can be said or shown in a Fleet versus a Tweet. Twitter is sure to face new moderation challenges as it decides to write new rules or change existing ones to combat, say, harassment or misinformation when they appear in Fleets.