Twitter wants to be your go-to platform for news and trends.
A report by BuzzFeed details the
upcoming Project Lightning, a hub that will curate Tweets on the platform centered around events,
news and trends.
It’s not just a side-feature either; Twitter hopes Lightning will change the way people think about its social network.
On the mobile app, a lightning icon will show up front-and-center on the home row.
Click on it, and you’re taken to a screen listing the curated events.
This time around however, it’s not an algorithm doing the heavy lifting.
Twitter’s put together a team of editors to “select what it thinks are the best and most relevant tweets and package them into a collection.”
The company is developing an
editorial policy to assure content is reviewed before being included in Lightning.
Tweets, photos and videos are then presented in a full-screen format you can swipe through. Twitter is emphasizing speed: photos should load immediately, and video will play automatically .
And if you had any doubts, Lightning collections will include Vine and Periscope content as well.
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