Twitter has been the one-to-go-to platform for ground breaking news and warnings. The raid to apprehend (or assassinate) Osama bin Laden was unknowingly told on Twitter while the choppers flew overhead the streets in Pakistan.
Others, like natural disasters or terrorism acts, were made known on Twitter long before the media starts to compile their stories and editors to publish. Those like myself have become reliant on Twitter for real-time updates as an event unfolds.
Unfortunately as we know it, not every news or an event photo on Twitter is true (since anyone can say anything without having credible sources in a tweet), it still is amazing how fast information spreads.
Through the use of hashtags (#), you can follow on a specific trending news by following it as Twitter displays all tweets containing that particular hashtag.
For casual users, though, hashtags can be hard to grasp and it does require you to know about the hashtag through someone you follow on Twitter. And this is part of the reasons why Twitter is launching a new feature named Twitter Moments.
Twitter Moments are basically lists of current trending stories or moments on Twitter, so you can find out what’s happening around the world and follow them in real time as tweets come.
Moments are curated at the moment by the team at Twitter, with the help of Bleacher Report, Entertainment Weekly, Fox News, Buzzfeed, Getty Images, New York Times, Mashable, MLB, Vogue, NASA, and Washington Post.
Moments can be accessed by going to the Moments section (the tab with a lightning icon) which is only available for those who live in United States at the moment. However, once shared, anyone in the world can see it by going through a Tweet link.
For a start, how about following this Corgi cuteness on Moments?
Source: Twitter
