Published 15:38 IST, June 10th 2020

Twitter's new Instagram stories-like feature 'Fleets' triggers hilarious memes

Twitter announced a new feature called Fleets which would allow user in India to upload disappearing stories for 24 hours which could not be replied to.

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Twitter, on June 9, anunced a new feature called Fleets which would allow in India user to put up disappearing stories. Twitter is latest to join league of social media platform providing users with feature of temporary posts after Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram.

Fleets feature allows users to upload pictures and thoughts for 24 hours. However, it would t allow or users to retweet, like or reply to m. Responses to Fleets would be taken to user's direct messs. India is third country where Jack Dorsey led company introduced its feature after Brazil and Italy.

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'Monisha beta, Stories is so middle class' 

Soon after news of new feature fleets broke out, desi users came up with hilarious memes trolling Twitter for “introducing: a feature already on or popular social media sites. Many ors made speculations about future of feature, joking that it could be soon seen on money payments applications.

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In or news, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on June 10 anunced that June 19, popularly called 'Juneteenth' was being declared as a company holiday at his companies Twitter and Square across US from this year onwards. Sharing a link behind historical significance of day Dorsey stated that every region had ir own days to celebrate emancipation and that he would ensure that such days are declared as company holidays across countries. 

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"Countries and regions around world have ir own days to celebrate emancipation, and we will do work to make those dates company holidays everywhere we are present," he said. Juneteenth is one of  oldest nationally celebrated days and marks end of slavery in United States. 

Read: Twitter And Square Make 'Juneteenth' (June 19) A Permanent Company Holiday, Here's Why

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15:38 IST, June 10th 2020