Published 14:00 IST, June 11th 2020

Mumbai Police 'fleets' its first 'fleeting' thought on Twitter, shares its dogs squad pic

As Twitter rolled out its brand new feature called 'Fleets', Mumbai Police shared its first thought and it's too cute and hilarious for words. Read more--

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Mumbai Police is inimitable in its social media game! On Wednesday, as Twitter rolled out its brand new feature called 'Fleets', Mumbai Police shared its first thought and it's too cute and hilarious for words. Fleets enable smartphone users to share ir momentary 'fleeting'  thoughts that'll vanish in 24 hours. thing describes randomness of 'fleeting' thoughts better than a dog squad looking in every possible direction while posing for a photo.

Mumbai Police shared ir first Fleet on Twitter with an adorable picture of police dogs squad -- all yellow labrador retrievers-- and wrote, "Heard re's more audience for us on Twitter w! 'Fleeting right in..."

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Twitter has introduced its new feature called ‘Fleets’ where users can share ephemeral tweets including videos, GIFs or photos which will last for 24 hours. ‘Fleets’ resembles ‘stories’ feature of Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook, and users can see Fleets at top of ir feed and profile ps.

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A user can click on profile picture visible at top of Twitter feed and add fleeting thoughts in form of text, ims, videos or GIFs. Texts can be superimposed on ims and videos a user wants to share as Fleet. Kayvon Beykpour, product lead at Twitter and co-founder of Periscope, anunced on June 9 that Fleets feature have been rolled out and urged users to share feedback.

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Twitter posts in form of Fleets will disappear after 24 hours and will have Retweets, likes or public comments. While public comments won’t be available, users can reply to Fleets by clicking on it and sending a Direct Mess (DM) or emoji and continue conversation in DM. Anyone can react to Fleets if DMs are open.

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Aim at advertising revenue

Fleets feature is being seen as a part of Twitter’s effort to provide more control to users on engment. According to industry experts, new feature is aimed at boosting Twitter’s user growth and advertising revenue in which company has lagged behind Facebook and Google.

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14:00 IST, June 11th 2020