
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Fleets, we hardly knew ye. It’s a cliché, but also true. That’s because Fleets, true to its namesake, has been around only eight months. Twitter launched the feature, a Stories-like tool that allowed users to post messages that would disappear after 24 hours, in November; then, this week, Twitter announced it would be ending the service with a very succinct tweet: “we’re removing Fleets on August 3, working on some new stuff. we’re sorry or you’re welcome.” …