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by pboutros 1965 days ago
This is a really smart acquisition for Twitter to make. I'm subscribed to a number of substacks (and Patreons) that I only discovered through creators on Twitter.

Job #1 for twitter should be making it easy to subscribe to Revue newsletters from within Twitter. Please do not put the team that rolled out Fleets in charge of Job #1 ;)
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nikivi 1965 days ago
What did you dislike about Fleets rollout?
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blakesterz 1965 days ago
I don't normally answer questions for others, but I feel uniquely qualified to chime in on this one!

I am a pretty heavy Twitter user and have been for a long time. It's really the only "social" thing I use.

I know Fleets is a Twitter thing... I remember seeing it someplace, maybe a story on Hacker News or something? Was it something like a replacement for Vine maybe? Or was it something with threaded conversations? Am I seeing Fleets in my feed? What do they look like? Are they being used at all?

I really have no idea what Fleets is and I use Twitter all the time. Whatever Fleets is I agree with pboutros, don't put that same team in charge of anything else, this rollout didn't work.

(I may be missing something totally obvious and awesome here! Maybe Fleets is the greatest thing since Google+ and I'm to set in my ways to notice or care? This could very well be another "It's not you, it's me" thing and I'm too dense to see it.)

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shp0ngle 1965 days ago
Fleets are Instagram Stories - Now On Twitter.

I think they appear just in mobile app, but also not sure, I use the web Twitter on phone.

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kilbuz 1965 days ago
They do appear on the mobile app. One person out of the hundreds I follow uses them, so therefore I am reminded that they exist, even though I never watch them. If that person happened to stop creating them, I would not know what they are or that they exist.
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user-the-name 1964 days ago
You would, because the app will still waste the screen space for the fleets bar even if nobody is using it, just so it can push the button for creating a new one in front of you all the time.
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whimsicalism 1964 days ago
They are incongruous with how I see most people using twitter. If I wanted the fleet, I would follow them on instagram.
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