Twitter pulls the plug on CoTweets

The tempo of sweeping modifications throughout Twitter has slowed down over the previous months, however from time to time, modifications on the social media firm make the headlines. And now, it has as soon as once more shut down a function in early days, that it started testing simply final yr – CoTweets.

On its assist web page for CoTweets, the social media firm introduced that it has pulled the plug on CoTweets, marking the tip of an experiment that was launched previous to the multi-billion-dollar acquisition of the favored micro-blogging web site. The collaborative posting function, which it had began testing final July, was shut down on Tuesday, January 31.

“We admire the suggestions we’ve been given about CoTweets and we’re nonetheless on the lookout for methods to implement this function shifting ahead. We thanks for making an attempt CoTweets and we’ve loved watching your entire creativity with this function come to life!” Twitter stated on the assist web page for CoTweets.

Whereas the function has been eliminated, co-tweets will stay as they’re for a month. As soon as the interval is over, they are going to be routinely transformed to retweets on the co-author’s profile. This doesn’t, nevertheless, essentially imply the ultimate finish of CoTweets, and Twitter left room for hypothesis by saying that it was “on the lookout for methods to implement this function” sooner or later. So CoTweets would possibly take a web page out of Twitter Blue’s e-book and make its return to the social media platform in a unique type.

Except you’ve got been residing underneath a rock since July 2022, then you’ve got heard of – and even seen – the CoTweets function. A CoTweet permits the customers of two accounts to co-author posts that may seem each on their profiles and the timelines of their followers. Twitter began experimenting with the function in a handful of nations final spring – the US, Korea, and Canada – and proved to be helpful for manufacturers which can be engaged in collaborations or whereas making bulletins. It could have been neat to get the fingers on the function when Twitter would roll the function out globally, however evidently it isn’t to be.

In a tweet, CEO Musk stated that the shutting down of the CoTweets function comes because the social media firm was focussing on enabling writers to “add essays as attachments to tweets.” Subsequent week, it will likely be launching a beta model of its new Superfollows program, which is able to supposedly assist creators publish straight on the platform and earn from it. The tweet was unable to be considered since Musk restricted who can view his tweets, and all his tweets are protected behind a “locked” image.