Twitter Finally Implements Snapchat-esque Feature "Fleets," And Everyone Quickly Recognizes Its Hornyposting Potential

Twitter formally launched Fleets today, its answer to Instagram and Facebook's stories feature, which themselves were answers to Snapchat. The core idea of Fleets is that there you can post messages which will disappear in 24 hours. Fleets cannot be liked, retweeted, or publically commented on.

The reaction to Fleets thus far has been much the same to when it was first announced in March: basically, nobody wants it.

fleets are like IG stories without any of the polish, any of the filters, awful camera integration, and on a site already built for instant content. maybe the dumbest thing Twitter has made yet. Truly impressed

— y2k compliant (@Boringstein) November 17, 2020

And people's reactions to your Fleets come in as DMs? Wow this sucks

— Barry Petchesky (@barry) November 17, 2020

"The people, and I'm here on behalf of the people, want an edit button, Jack."

"No. They don't. No. We're rolling out somethings they really want, they need."

"What?"

"Fleets. Like Instagram Stories, which are really just Snapchat."

"That--"

"And audio tweets. Fucking slick." pic.twitter.com/FEryZrYtEX

— julia alexander (@loudmouthjulia) November 17, 2020

fleets????? pic.twitter.com/2symKQcpAV

— 🍓 Shelby 🍓 (@shelbobergen) November 17, 2020

However, some Twitter users quickly realized the potential of the new feature for more unsavory forms of posting. Fleets quickly disappear and replies go directly to a user's DMs, making it much easier for users to privately get horny on main.

Oh I see now fleets will make it easier to reply directly to people saying horny shit, sounds chaotic I’m in

— alyssa, from philly, (@alyssakeiko) November 17, 2020

fleets is gonna be HELL during horny hours oh my god

— King Wow (@wowthatshiphop) November 17, 2020

Fleets going according to plan pic.twitter.com/uw9HXeEHpZ

— big mikey milkers (@mrmikeyreid) November 17, 2020

Sorry but Fleets rule. So stoked to archive all the best horny tweets and age-gap in fanfic discourse

— hk (@HKesvani) November 17, 2020

It appears that most of Twitter's userbase is prepared to use Fleets for chaotic evil for the time being. At the time of writing, only some users have the feature as Twitter rolls it out to all accounts. In the meantime, enjoy the fact that Fleets shares its name with a popular laxative:

So Twitter fails to give us an edit button and offers us Twitter Fleet instead. It’s named after a suppository due to the laxative effect this will have online. #Fleets #TwitterFleets #FleetWeek pic.twitter.com/0KwomdkhKD

— She’s Loca but She’s Magic (@jefadoll) November 17, 2020