Twitter is rolling out its own version of Instagram stories - here's why

Social network Twitter has introduced a new feature which lets users share posts which will then disappear within 24 hours.

Named ‘Fleets,’ the new feature will allow people on Twitter to post text, images and videos which their followers can interact with privately, but will disappear automatically after a day.

How will it work?

This style of temporary posting was first utilised by Snapchat, then on Instagram, with the ‘Stories’ feature.

Users can choose to post text, reactions to tweets with the tweet attached, photos or videos, as well as the ability to customise them with background and text options.

Fleets - as in “fleeting” or “short-lived” - appear along the top of timelines, rather than in the main Twitter feed, and replies are not public.