#Twitter moments today update#

New or not, it’s an interesting feature, because sending push notifications about news requires the same kind of editorial judgement that news publishers face.

“Breaking news notifications allow people to be notified of relevant news stories as they are unfolding, so they can follow along in real-time with what’s happening,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. It’s obvious to understand why Twitter is using these notifications: It wants to drive user engagement in the same way any other publisher wants to drive readers to a big story. In either instance, the alert should take you to a Twitter Moment - a collection of tweets into one, themed thread - which are compiled by humans on Twitter’s curation team. The company is using a mix of algorithms and humans to decide who gets what, a spokesperson added. These alerts are personalized, which means you won’t necessarily get the same news push that other users get. 9ET4VmA5sl- Peter Kafka January 22, 2018 28, 2016 By Andrew Hutchinson Content and Social Media Manager As promised last month, when Twitter expanded the ability to create Moments to influencers and brands, Twitter’s now giving all users the ability to create their own Moments to share with friends and followers.

#Twitter moments today update#

Haven't seen this from Twitter before: They just shoved a news update into my mentions. Many of the top tweets and trends reflect current news and events from the. So if you’re noticing it today, like us, that might be why. Dec 11, 2021, 6:05 AM PST Chesnot/Getty Images Twitter compiled its most popular tweets, hashtags, and topics of 2021. We may have been on to something - a Twitter spokesperson says that while, yes, these alerts have been around for a while, the company recently increased the group of users who may see them. But Monday’s government-shutdown push was the first one I noticed, and the first noticed by my colleague Peter Kafka, who tells me he’s on Twitter “pretty much all of the time I am awake, sadly.” So it stood out. These alerts aren’t new - apparently Twitter started testing them a little over a year ago. So Twitter is pushing important news alerts to users, similar to how a news publication like The New York Times (or even Recode!) might do. It also sent the news, as a notification, to my mentions tab inside the Twitter app. But because Twitter, the company, decided that news about the government shutdown was worthy of pushing to the home screen on my phone. Not because I read about it on my Twitter timeline, which is how I usually learn stuff from Twitter. The government shutdown is ending, and I learned about it thanks to Twitter.