By: Jennifer Van Grove
In the name of context, the information network now points you to news articles where tweets are embedded.
Twitter is making people privy to tweets that make news with a new feature the company calls "related headlines."
The feature, previously in testing,
is designed to add color to newsy tweets that get picked up by
journalists. Now when a tweet is embedded in a news article, the
headline is appended to the tweet's permalink page, providing viewers
with a clickable list of sources where they can find more information
about the tweet in question.
"This section, which you can view from the tweet's permalink page, lists
and links to Web sites where the tweet was embedded, making it easier
to discover stories that provide more context," Twitter engineer Brian
Wallerstein explained in a blog post.
Related headlines should come in handy in breaking-news situations when
reporters pluck real-time 140-character recollections or photos for
their stories. The clickable headlines are meant to direct people
following unfolding situations or celebrity drama to longer-form
destinations where they can make sense of the news.
Source: CNET
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