Twitter Rolls out New Feature Grouping News Links with Related Tweets
Twitter seem to be putting a lot of effort into the
promotion of news links on the platform as of late; the first sign of this came
last month when they began placing such links in prime position atop users’
news feeds, and now they’re going one step further by grouping all related tweets
from your friends and extended network together with the story itself.
The new feature shares many similarities with the approach
used by rival platform Facebook, who have long since grouped together related links,
shares and comments. In the case of Twitter however as it makes even more sense
given how they have subtly changed their focus and even the classification of
their app from ‘social networking’ to ‘news’ in recent times. It is hoped that
this new feature will increase engagement with news articles whilst also
helping users to gain a more complete overview of the subject in question as
comments relating to the piece will be immediately visible.
The feature will also substantially help in tidying up users’
timelines, as multiple stories on the same subject will no longer appear
separately at various points in your news feed.
A twitter spokesperson confirmed in a conversation with BuzzFeed that the new feature has now
been rolled out to all users across iOS, Android and desktop. So whatever
platform you may use Twitter on, you can expect to see a lot more news links on
your timeline from now on.
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