Surprisingly, Twitter says it has discontinued its CoTweet feature, which allowed a user to co-author a tweet with another Twitter account. The company, which announced this via an updated support page, noted that CoTweets will no longer be available to create starting Tuesday, 1/31.
CoTweets was enabled on “select” accounts in the United States, Canada, and Korea in July of last year, but it was never widely implemented. Twitter started developing the feature in December 2021 with an official release in July last year.
CoTweet was an innovative way for users to collaborate on the microblogging platform. It was initially designed to help users increase their follower counts, expose their content to new audiences, and fortify their existing connections with other accounts.
“Already existing CoTweets will be viewable for one more month at which point they will revert to Retweets,” Twitter encourages.
Since taking over the company, Elon Musk has eliminated a number of previously available features. The Twitter owner has made significant changes to the service, including the elimination of some features (such as ad-free articles, Twitter Tiles, and Twitter Notes) as well as the layoffs and terminations of some of its top executives.
Prior to Elon Musk’s takeover, Twitter was planning to roll out a new long-form text format called Twitter Notes, which would have allowed users to write articles complete with rich formatting and uploaded media.
The microblogging platform was supposed to combine its newsletter service with TwitterWrite, a brand for long-form writing, in June 2022. As CEO, Elon Musk was not done with the lengthy text files even after the takeover.
To put an end to the insanity of notepad screenshots, Elon Musk considered implementing a feature in November 2022 that would allow users to attach lengthy texts to tweets. His tweet implied that it would function similarly to Twitter Notes.
A Twitter designer dropped hints in December 2022 that the platform was planning to increase the character limit for tweets to allow for the direct publication of long-form content.
Now that CoTweet has gone, we can turn our attention to whatever new feature Elon Musk and his team are planning for the near future.
