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Say goodbye to Fleets, the row of fullscreen tweets at the top of the Twitter timeline that expire after 24 hours. The ephemeral tweet format is shutting down due to low usage after launching widely just eight months ago. From a report: Starting on August 3rd, users will instead just see active Spaces -- Twitter's live audio chat rooms -- at the top of their timelines. And the composer for traditional tweets will be updated with more camera editing features from Fleets, like text-formatting and GIF stickers over photos. Twitter's decision to axe Fleets is not just an admission that the feature didn't work but that the company still hasn't figured out how to get people tweeting more. For years, Twitter has struggled to get new users to post regularly and not just consume other people's tweets. Fleets was its shot at using Stories, the popular social media format invented by Snapchat and further popularized by Instagram, to lower the pressure around tweeting. "We hoped Fleets would help more people feel comfortable joining the conversation on Twitter," Ilya Brown, Twitter's vice president of product, said in a statement. "But, in the time since we introduced Fleets to everyone, we haven't seen an increase in the number of new people joining the conversation with Fleets like we hoped."
re: "For years, Twitter has struggled to get new users to post regularly and not just consume other people's tweets."
Well, if you drown everyone's timeline in topics and promoted stories and ads, then new user's posts get zero engagement and people get bored shouting into the vacuum.
Well, if you drown everyone's timeline in topics and promoted stories and ads, then new user's posts get zero engagement and people get bored shouting into the vacuum.
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Say goodbye to Fleets, the feature designed with a built-in expiration date
Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm
Airports and planes. I've gotten sick so many times on vacation. Wearing an N95 on a plane is basically common sense.
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I've got some really cool homemade cotton masks. I fully intend to continue wearing them in the colder seasons, both to keep my face warm and as a fashion accessory.
East Helena, MT
*cries in Sweden*
I'm looking forward to having to worry a lot less about covid, but wouldn't mind if we worried a little more about giving each other colds. Colds are bad!
FIXME: Tattoo Design
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The text ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US with a lengthy footnote explaining that I got this tattoo in 2020 and not, as you may assume, 2001, but offering no further clarification.
Is "your adult life post-2000" aimed at Millennials? Because as a GenXer 1995 is still solidly in my adult life.
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Did you know that Road House was panned when it came out and has a 39% on Rotten Tomatoes? I know it doesn't count for this game, but what a travesty.
"The Spy Who Dumped Me". *Way* more fun than it had any business being.
Mortal Engines was pretty good, and Battleship was enjoyably cheesy fun.
Melbourne, Australia
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Ratchet and Clank was a pretty good movie and I enjoyed all of it. It gets a 21% on rotten tomatoes.
Colorado Plateau
I think "Gold" is better than RT's score would suggest. It's not as good as "The Founder" but I think it is as good as "Blow" and they're all cut from the same cloth.
Ottawa, Ontario
I liked the A-Team. Fight me. (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/dvd-streaming-all?minTomato=0&maxTomato=49&services=amazon;hbo_go;itunes;netflix_iw;vudu;amazon_prime;fandango_now&genres=1;2;4;5;6;8;9;10;11;13;18;14&sortBy=tomato)
Also, Macgruber.
Also, Macgruber.
New York
Anon was rather enjoyable. Could've used some help but I still liked it. Bright also needs help but is overall still enjoyable. Not saying either of them are *great* movies, but I like them.
Sort of cheating: My Little Pony The Movie, because it makes my daughter happy. Also, it passes the Bechedel Test with flying colors!
Washington, District of Columbia
Alt-text,
"I wasn't a big fan of 3 or Salvation, so I'm trying to resist getting my hopes up too much for Dark Fate, but it's hard. I'm just a sucker for humans and robots traveling through time to try to drive trucks into each other, apparently."
"I wasn't a big fan of 3 or Salvation, so I'm trying to resist getting my hopes up too much for Dark Fate, but it's hard. I'm just a sucker for humans and robots traveling through time to try to drive trucks into each other, apparently."
Atlanta, Georgia
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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If we start doing this on our own, maybe political commentators will start doing it too, without realizing it's a joke. Who's with me?
Today's News:
marvel and dc. mac, linux and pc. iphone and android. physicists still have a long way to go.
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For a while, some physicists worked on a theory unifying the other forces with both the force of gravity and the film "Gravity," but even after Alfonso Cuarón was held in a deep underground chamber of water for 10^31 years he refused to sell his film to Disney.
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