Twitter puts an end to its collaborative posting feature called ‘CoTweets’
Twitter has announced that it has shut down its collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets’, which the micro-blogging platform had been testing for the “last several months”. “For the last several months we’ve been testing a new way to tweet together using CoTweets. We’re sad to say that the current experiment is coming to an end,” the platform said on its help center page.
Twitter announces to shut down CoTweets
“CoTweets will no longer be available to create starting Tuesday, 1/31. Already existing CoTweets will be viewable for one more month at which point they will revert to Retweets. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”
A CoTweet was a co-authored tweet that was posted to both writers’ timelines and the timelines of their followers at the same time. Users were able to identify CoTweet by the usernames and profile images of two authors in the header. As per the company, “Since only two authors can appear on a CoTweet’s header at once, you can only invite one co-author per CoTweet.”
Now, for those who were invited to co-author a tweet, CoTweets will start appearing as retweets from the other person’s account.
The feature allowed authors to share the spotlight, unlock opportunities for engaging new audiences and enhance their established partnerships.
When launched in July last year, the platform said that, “this limited-time experiment allows select accounts in Canada, Korea, and the US to send invites to CoTweet with another account.”
Additionally, Twitter further reveals that it will continue to look for ways to implement CoTweet feature. As per the support page, “We’re still looking for ways to implement this feature moving forward”. Hence, there are chances that this feature is bound to return after some time.
Since almost 80 percent of Twitter’s employees have left the company since Elon Musk took over the company since last year, CoTweet might take a while to return. It was recently reported that the company now has less than 550 full-time engineers.
–With inputs from IANS
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Twitter has announced that it has shut down its collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets’, which the micro-blogging platform had been testing for the “last several months”. “For the last several months we’ve been testing a new way to tweet together using CoTweets. We’re sad to say that the current experiment is coming to an end,” the platform said on its help center page.
Twitter announces to shut down CoTweets
“CoTweets will no longer be available to create starting Tuesday, 1/31. Already existing CoTweets will be viewable for one more month at which point they will revert to Retweets. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”
A CoTweet was a co-authored tweet that was posted to both writers’ timelines and the timelines of their followers at the same time. Users were able to identify CoTweet by the usernames and profile images of two authors in the header. As per the company, “Since only two authors can appear on a CoTweet’s header at once, you can only invite one co-author per CoTweet.”
Now, for those who were invited to co-author a tweet, CoTweets will start appearing as retweets from the other person’s account.
The feature allowed authors to share the spotlight, unlock opportunities for engaging new audiences and enhance their established partnerships.
When launched in July last year, the platform said that, “this limited-time experiment allows select accounts in Canada, Korea, and the US to send invites to CoTweet with another account.”
Additionally, Twitter further reveals that it will continue to look for ways to implement CoTweet feature. As per the support page, “We’re still looking for ways to implement this feature moving forward”. Hence, there are chances that this feature is bound to return after some time.
Since almost 80 percent of Twitter’s employees have left the company since Elon Musk took over the company since last year, CoTweet might take a while to return. It was recently reported that the company now has less than 550 full-time engineers.
–With inputs from IANS
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