The tempo of sweeping modifications throughout Twitter has slowed down over the previous months, however once in a while, modifications on the social media firm make the headlines. And now, it has as soon as once more shut down a characteristic in early days, that it started testing simply final 12 months – CoTweets.

On its assist web page for CoTweets, the social media firm introduced that it has pulled the plug on CoTweets, marking the top of an experiment that was launched previous to the multi-billion-dollar acquisition of the favored micro-blogging web site. The collaborative posting characteristic, which it had began testing final July, was shut down on Tuesday, January 31.

“We respect the suggestions we’ve been given about CoTweets and we’re nonetheless searching for methods to implement this characteristic shifting ahead. We thanks for attempting CoTweets and we’ve loved watching your entire creativity with this characteristic come to life!” Twitter mentioned on the assist web page for CoTweets.

Whereas the characteristic has been eliminated, co-tweets will stay as they’re for a month. As soon as the interval is over, they are going to be routinely transformed to retweets on the co-author’s profile. This doesn’t, nevertheless, essentially imply the ultimate finish of CoTweets, and Twitter left room for hypothesis by saying that it was “searching for methods to implement this characteristic” sooner or later. So CoTweets would possibly take a web page out of Twitter Blue’s guide and make its return to the social media platform in a special kind.

Until you’ve gotten been dwelling below a rock since July 2022, then you’ve gotten heard of – and even seen – the CoTweets characteristic. A CoTweet permits the customers of two accounts to co-author posts that can seem each on their profiles and the timelines of their followers. Twitter began experimenting with the characteristic in a handful of nations final spring – the US, Korea, and Canada – and proved to be helpful for manufacturers which might be engaged in collaborations or whereas making bulletins. It will have been neat to get the fingers on the characteristic when Twitter would roll the characteristic out globally, however evidently it’s not to be.

In a tweet, CEO Musk mentioned that the shutting down of the CoTweets characteristic comes because the social media firm was focussing on enabling writers to “add essays as attachments to tweets.” Subsequent week, it will likely be launching a beta model of its new Superfollows program, which can supposedly assist creators publish instantly on the platform and earn from it. The tweet was unable to be considered since Musk restricted who can view his tweets, and all his tweets are protected behind a “locked” image.