section_path: Content/CoTweets
section_name: CoTweets
paragraph_text: CoTweets
  
  Between July 2022 and January 2023, Twitter tested a feature where two users could be the author of a tweet, which would be posted on both of their accounts. Both users' profile pictures, names, and handles are shown. One user drafts a tweet in the Composer field, then invite a user that is both following them and has their account published. Edits could not be made once the invite was sent, with the alternative being deleting the invitation and making a second one. The second author could accept the invitation, at which the tweet would then be posted to both accounts. Once published, the second user could revoke them being a co-author, and the tweet would change to being written by the first author and being removed from the second author's tweets. Until the second author accepts the invitation, the tweet would be unlisted, not appearing on the authors' timelines or in searches, but available via a direct link.
  
  It was tested with some accounts in the US, Canada, and South Korea. The company noted during the test that the feature may be turned off and all CoTweets deleted. The feature was spotted in code in December 2021.
  
  On January 31, Twitter suddenly and quietly decided to stop new CoTweets from being made, though noted that it could return in the future. CoTweets were able to be seen for another month, before being converted to a normal tweet for the first author, and a retweet for the second author. Though Twitter's support page offered a generic reasoning for discontinuing the feature, Elon Musk said that it was to focus on allowing users to add text attachments.