Twitter has launched a curation tool called Moments, which lets users keep up with the biggest stories of the day without having to follow lots of new accounts.
Moments is launching on Twitter’s apps for iOS and Android and on desktop, in the US only for now. It sits in a new lightning bolt tab within the apps and on Twitter.com.
How it works
Clicking on the lightning bolt brings up a list of stories from the day, which is updated regularly. Users can also browse topics such as sport or entertainment to look back a day or two at more specific stories.
Clicking on an individual Moment displays an introduction to that story, which users can then swipe through for images, videos, GIFs, links, Vines and tweets. A progress bar shows how much content is available on each story, and Moments can be shared with followers.
In a blog post about the launch, Madhu Muthukumar, Twitter’s product manager for Moments, wrote: “We know finding these only-on-Twitter moments can be a challenge, especially if you haven’t followed certain accounts. But it doesn’t have to be.”
