{"id":30736,"date":"2020-11-19T16:38:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30736"},"modified":"2020-11-30T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:34:40","slug":"twitter-launches-fleets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/19\/twitter-launches-fleets\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Launches Fleets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joshua Harris and Sam Haveson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

To help people feel more comfortable, we’ve been working on a lower pressure way for people to talk about what’s happening. Today, we’re launching Fleets so everyone can easily join the conversation in a new way – with their fleeting thoughts.<\/p>

Fleets are for sharing momentary thoughts – they help start conversations and only stick around for 24 hours. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

How does this work with third-party clients? I can already see deleted regular tweets in Tweetbot.<\/p>\n\n

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Fleets have no retweets, likes, or public comments, do not show up in search or moments, and cannot be embedded on external websites.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Alec Stapp<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Oct 2013: Snapchat launches Stories
\nAug 2016: Instagram copies it
\nFeb 2017: WhatsApp copies it
\nMar 2017: Messenger copies it
\nNov 2018: YouTube copies it
\nSep 2020: LinkedIn copies it
\nNov 2020: Twitter copies it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2020-11-20): Jeff Johnson<\/a> says that Twitter did an Epic-style<\/a> server update to enable fleets for users without updating the Twitter app on their phones. That would seem to go against guideline 2.3.1<\/a> about not including “hidden, dormant, or undocumented features in your app.”<\/p>\n\n

Update (2020-11-23): Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Twitter’s new ephemeral tweets, or “fleets,” have been hit by a bug that allows them to be accessed long after their supposed 24-hour expiration time, less than a week after the feature launched.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

According to Techcrunch<\/a><\/em>, the bug allowed fleets to be viewed and downloaded by other users without notifying their creator. Details of the bug were posted in a series of tweets over the weekend. Twitter soon acknowledged the issue and says a fix is on the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2020-11-30): Kris Holt<\/a> (via John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n

It emerged last year<\/a> that Spotify was working on a stories feature for artists. The company started a public test of stories earlier this year, when it allowed some influencers to add them to playlists.<\/a> Many other major platforms have stories features, including Instagram<\/a>, Snapchat<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> and even LinkedIn<\/a>. It probably shouldn’t be too surprising that Spotify looks set to get in on the action too. Whether it should <\/em>do so<\/a> is perhaps up for debate. <\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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