Twitter has dumped Fleets in the graveyard of failed tech products.
The formats demise comes less than a year after its birth.
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Up-front:Fleetsstruggled from the start.
Ina January survey, only 7.7% of monthly Twitter users said theyd viewed or posted fleets.
Some 53% had never even heard of the feature.
Quick take:Fleets felt doomed from launch.
Twitter had hoped that the feature wouldmitigate some of the anxieties that stop people from tweeting.
Story byThomas Macaulay
Thomas is the managing editor of TNW.
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Away from work, he e(show all)Thomas is the managing editor of TNW.
He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
