Twitter says it will shut down disappearing 'Fleets' feature
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FILE PHOTO: People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it will shut down its ephemeral posts feature called Fleets on Aug. 3 after the product failed to gain traction with users.
The shutdown comes just eight months after the social media platform rolled out Fleets to all its users globally, and just one month after it began testing advertising within the feature.
In a blog post on Wednesday, Twitter said it had not seen an increase in the number of new users posting Fleets as it had hoped.
(Reporting by Sheila Dang in Dallas; Editing by Chris Reese)
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