The user won’t receive a notification of the screenshot, which is sad, and sort of beats the purpose of ephemeral tweets.
You can still screenshot someone else’s Fleet and share it on your timeline or Fleet – similar to Instagram Stories. If you are DMs are open, anyone can send a reply to your fleet, but if they are closed, only the people you follow can send a reply. You can react to Fleets with emojis or reply via Direct Messages. Since Tweets are ephemeral and vanish after 24 hours, Twitter does not allow you to publicly like, retweet, or reply to fleets. Apart from showing Fleets from people that you follow, it shows your profile picture with a “+” icon at the beginning.ġ. On your profile, there’s a Fleets carousel at the top. There are other creative differences as well, but this is the biggest and most advantageous difference that Fleets have over Stories.Ĭreating Twitter Fleets is easy. I am happy to see that Twitter is not going down the same path. If you have used Instagram Stories before, you know that you cannot share clickable links on stories, unless you are verified or have 10,000 followers. The biggest thing that differentiates Fleets from Stories is the ability to share clickable links. Fleets are perfect for posting something casual and less permanent. Like on other services, Fleets on Twitter disappear after 24 hours. According to Twitter, Fleets are for sharing fleeting thoughts that you want to disappear and don’t want to see on your timeline.
As mentioned, Twitter Fleets are a response to the popular “Stories” feature that we have seen on other social media platforms.