Whether or not you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably heard a lot about the app. Twitter is a microblogging application that allows users to post short messages, images, and videos in bits called tweets. You can search for anything from live news to memes and opinions on trends. It is also undoubtedly the most toxic.
Twitter has now added a new feature that users fear would make it even more toxic and open individuals to more harassment.
This feature is currently not available everywhere or to everyone, but if you’ve been on Twitter recently, you’ve heard about the new fleet feature. The feature is basically Instagram stories but for Twitter. It is the same belt of posts from people you follow that vanish after 24hrs. Same as Snapchat and Facebook.
This new feature has since birthed the hashtag RIPtwitter (#RIPtwitter) as people tweeted their displeasure at the company’s inability to maintain its authenticity.
But a lack of authenticity is the least of the features problems, a few users have pointed out a handful of ways fleet can do more harm, popular Marine biologist Andrew Thaler recently tweeted that the fleet feature makes it possible for you to still tag someone who has blocked you and vice-versa.
He called on twitter to shut it down as it can promote targeted harassment.
Others have also commented on the fact that the stories that were supposed to last just 24hrs can somehow last longer due to an API glitch.
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