Twitter recently announced that it will discontinue its CoTweet service, which enabled users to send Twitter and Facebook messages simultaneously, but will debut a new feature, text attachments, next week.
The social media giant said CoTweet was ending due to the introduction of its new text attachment feature, which will allow users to upload text documents directly onto a post, as well as photos and videos.
CoTweet, a service that allowed businesses to simultaneously send messages on both Twitter and Facebook, was created in 2009 and was acquired by Twitter in 2010. Although the service has proven to be very useful for many businesses and customers, Twitter has decided to transition away from CoTweet in order to promote the new text attachment feature.
Twitter’s text attachment service will enable users to upload text documents up to 5MB in size, regardless of format. Documents can be uploaded from Twitter’s app or from the web version of the platform, meaning that users no longer need to rely on external applications or sites to upload documents.
The new text attachment feature is expected to be popular among businesses, who can now quickly and easily share documents such as press releases, product information and more with their followers. Additionally, the feature will make it easier for people to share information with each other without having to download and open a document from an external source.
The transition from CoTweet to text attachments is expected to be seamless, and although users are no longer able to use CoTweet to send simultaneous Twitter and Facebook messages, they are now able to take advantage of the new text attachment feature which will undoubtedly be more convenient and useful.
Overall, Twitter’s transition from CoTweet to text attachments is a big move for the social media giant and is a sign of its dedication to constantly improving and innovating its platform. With text attachments, users now have access to an invaluable new way of easily and quickly sharing documents, information and more with their followers.