Twitter Moments joins a long lineup of attempts to curate the news
- 9 years ago
Twitter made its long-awaited move into the news business this week with the launch of Twitter Moments, a new tab in Twitter's mobile apps that let you see semi-curated summaries of the biggest news stories, as represented by things people are tweeting.
It makes sense, given that Twitter contains - among the 500 million things people tweet every day - an enormous amount of "news," however you define that.
But finding the news you're interested in has historically been very difficult.
You need to spend a lot of time creating lists or following people who actually have newsworthy things to say, and even then, their smartest tweets are often mixed up with a whole lot of stuff that may be interesting, and even funny, but which hardly qualifies as useful information.
It makes sense, given that Twitter contains - among the 500 million things people tweet every day - an enormous amount of "news," however you define that.
But finding the news you're interested in has historically been very difficult.
You need to spend a lot of time creating lists or following people who actually have newsworthy things to say, and even then, their smartest tweets are often mixed up with a whole lot of stuff that may be interesting, and even funny, but which hardly qualifies as useful information.