Twitter has the Fleets.
Twitter rolled out a new feature Tuesday that allows users to post temporary tweets, or Fleets, to their profile. The posts disappear after 24 hours, similar to the "Stories" feature on Instagram and Snapchat.
Karissa Bell, a senior editor at Engadget covering social media, says one reason Twitter would want to introduce Fleets is to address the comparatively large contingent of Twitter users who only rarely post on the platform, or don't post at all.
"Twitter seems to think that this is because maybe there's too much pressure associated with a permanent tweet, or people don't know what to say, and if you have something that is ephemeral then maybe it can remove some of that pressure,"
Twitter said some users have reported that tweeting is "uncomfortable because it feels so public, so permanent, and like there's so much pressure to rack up Retweets and Likes," it said in a statement. The company calls Fleets a "lower pressure way" for users to post on the platform.
