Twitter has really done a “hold my beer” on this one. https://twitter.com/neilcic/status/1328813581153005569
Summary thread: https://twitter.com/ra6bit/status/1328774850652082184
And https://twitter.com/bogboogie/status/1328745327478837250
This may legitimately be the most ill-conceived user-facing feature impacting privacy and abuse that a social network has ever released in production.
Sorry, I forgot that you can also be exposed to mutual blocks via them https://twitter.com/drandrewthaler/status/1328789896451010563
Sorry I missed Viss being DMed through them despite having closed DMs https://twitter.com/viss/status/1328819049212440579
Continuing that thread, I confirmed you can also send photos in DM through Fleets despite there being no dialog, simply by pasting them into the text box. Unsolicited hamster pics ahoy ;/
(No seriously, I closed my DMs because I don’t want to see any more photos of Nixon)
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