Twitter doubles down on news with new app features and notificationsTwitter wants to make it easier to see the news it thinks you care about.
Twitter, the social media platform filled with good boys and endless political screaming, is getting serious about the way it tackles news. On June 13, the company announced a few new features coming to the app that should make it much easier to find topics you care about and get information from sources you trust. There's not a name for any of what Twitter's adding, and while that might make these efforts sound unfinished, they're anything but.
To help keep users engaged with the world around them, Twitter will begin to send personalized push notifications and add little snippets at the top of your timeline for particularly big events the app thinks you'll be interested in. When you tap on these notifications or event blurbs, you'll be taken to a brand-new page that acts as a central hub for all the conversation happening around it
The top of the page will show a live video of what's going on, and as you ...
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Twitter doubles down on news with new app features and notifications
