Memes take over as Twitter retires Fleets feature

Twitter on July 14, announced that they are discontinuing the fleets feature on August 3.

The microblogging site in a blog post said, “the full-screen tweets feature that would appear on top of the Twitter timeline, and expire after 24 hours, will not be available anymore.”

Starting August 3, users will instead just see active Spaces — Twitter’s live audio chat rooms — at the top of their timelines.

A tweet by Twitter Support read, “We had planned for Fleets to help people feel comfortable joining the conversation in a low-pressure way, but it turns out Fleets were mainly used by those tweeting the most. So now we’re ready to explore other ways for people to share on Twitter,”

Right after the announcement, Netizens were quick to come up with memes.