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Inform has become the essence of Twitter. Its developers, aware of this, have been adding improvements to offer news more and more intelligently. The last one is ”˜Popular Articles”™, an innovation that will allow you to see the stories most shared by the accounts you follow That is, a personalized window for each user with the most relevant from their own network of tweeters. In addition, the new Twitter update will also include popular tweets in your geographic area based on your location.
In this way, Twitter seeks to offer a more refined and personalized service to its users And it is that, beyond controversial tweets and viral messages, it is clear that the American microblogging social network has become an important communication tool. So much so that even in the newsrooms of the big media, no detail of the 140 characters is lost.
This new feature is added to the existing ones such as ”˜Popular in National Press”™, ”˜Popular in Politics”™ or ”˜Popular in Institutions”™. You can find it in the ”˜Explore”™ tab of the application Instead of the featured tweet, it directly shows the news window, which will take you to the website of the one that comes as soon as you click on it. It's now available in the new Twitter update for iOS and Android worldwide.
Popular Articles: a not-so-new feature
According to BuzzFeed, this new Twitter update is very similar to the Nuzzel application. Under the sub title “news for busy professionals”, this app has become very popular for offering a similar service, whose main advantage is that it gives the user a much more careful selection and with less noisethan the sometimes chaotic timeline of the microblogging social network. In his case, the tab ”˜Popular Articles”™ takes the name of ”˜News from friends”™.
In this sense, Twitter seems to be following in the footsteps of the world's most popular social network, Facebook. Like this one, it has had no qualms about imitating a function of its competitors when it has become popular This happened, for example, with stories, a particularity of Snapchat that Zuckerberg's company did not hesitate to introduce it on its Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook itself.
