Twitter Starts Testing CoTweets Because...It Can?

pcmag.com:

Twitter is testing a feature that allows two people to collaborate on a single tweet. Or, as the company has decided to call these tweet-by-committees, a CoTweet.

Twitter says(Opens in a new window) a CoTweet is "a co-authored Tweet that’s posted simultaneously to both authors' profiles and their followers’ timelines" so the users can "share the spotlight, unlock opportunities for engaging new audiences, and enhance their established partnerships."

9to5Mac reports(Opens in a new window) that when the request to CoTweet is made, Twitter shows a message to the other user saying: "You've been invited to share ownership of a Tweet. If you accept, a CoTweet will be published showing you both as co-authors. [...] You can remove yourself anytime."

This seems fairly straightforward, but Twitter's support article describing CoTweets makes it seem like the feature is actually pretty complicated, and not just because it's suddenly taken a single-user process and turned it into a semi-collaborative way to share a tweet.

The complications involved in CoTweeting include various controls related to who can retweet, pin, or delete the CoTweet; the inability to CoTweet in a Twitter Circle, Communities, or Super Follows-only Tweets; and what happens if one of the CoTweeters deletes their account.

Another bizarre restriction on this feature: CoTweets can't be edited after the invite has been sent. "When two authors decide to CoTweet," Twitter says, "the first step is to finalize the content they’d like to share. We recommend using Direct Messages to collaborate."

Twitter says(Opens in a new window) CoTweets are available to "select accounts in the US, Canada, and Korea" and that "this experiment will run for a limited time." So long as it