The micro-blogging platform, Twitter, recently announced that it is shutting down its fairly new collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets‘.

The decision to pull the plug on the feature comes just a few months after the micro-blogging platform began testing it.

“For the last several months we’ve been testing a new way to tweet together using CoTweets. We’re sad to say that the current experiment is coming to an end,” the platform said on its help centre page.

In case you weren’t aware of CoTweet or what it does, here’s what it means.

A CoTweet is a co-authored Tweet that’s posted on the micro-blogging platform simultaneously to both authors’ profiles and their followers’ timelines.

A CoTweet is recognised easily with two pictures of authors and usernames that appear in the header. “CoTweets will no longer be available to create starting Tuesday, 1/31. Already existing CoTweets will be viewable for one more month at which point they will revert to Retweets. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

The feature, which will be disappearing from the social network, aimed to help authors share the spotlight, unlock opportunities for engaging new audiences, and enhance their established partnerships.Twitter had initially launched the CoTweet feature officially in July 2022. The micro-blogging platform only allowed two authors to appear on a CoTweet’s header at once, giving users the right to only invite one co-author per CoTweet.

However, Twitter is immediately killing the CoTweets, meaning that users will no longer be able to make use of the feature starting today. From now on, CoTweet posts will appear as regular tweets.

This isn’t the first time that the social network has ended a feature that it was experimenting with for months. Twitter had previously killed ‘Fleets’, a feature which resembled Instagram Stories and was launched in November 2020.