Twitter shuts down its collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets’

Twitter has introduced that it has shut down its collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets’, which the micro-blogging platform had been testing for the “final a number of months”.

“For the final a number of months we have been testing a brand new technique to tweet collectively utilizing CoTweets. We’re unhappy to say that the present experiment is coming to an finish,” the platform stated on its assist centre web page.

“CoTweets will now not be obtainable to create beginning Tuesday, 1/31. Already current CoTweets will likely be viewable for another month at which level they’ll revert to Retweets. We apologize for any inconvenience this will likely trigger.”

A CoTweet was a co-authored tweet that was posted to each writers’ timelines and the timelines of their followers on the similar time.

Users had been capable of determine CoTweet by the usernames and profile pictures of two authors within the header.

The feature allowed authors to share the highlight, unlock alternatives for partaking new audiences and improve their established partnerships.

When launched in July final 12 months, the platform stated that, “this limited-time experiment permits choose accounts in Canada, Korea, and the US to ship invitations to CoTweetwith one other account.”

(With inputs from IANS)