Facebook is testing an app notifying of breaking news on Twitter

ByEduardo Woo

Twitter's new feature which immediately recognizes popular articles that everyone is paying attention "news"Is being offered on the Twitter official application since July 1, 2015, but as reported against it, it is reported that" Facebook is developing a new application dedicated to news ".

Facebook mobile notification breaking news app - Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-mobile-notification-breaking-news-app-2015-8


Facebook is making an app that will send breaking news alerts to your phone | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/11/9132649/facebook-breaking-news-app

Facebook is for businessFacebook for businessAs a part of it, he is developing a standalone application dedicated to news, he said he is carrying out test operations in collaboration with several news media.

In a new application dedicated to news, if you follow the source distributor of interest, you will be able to receive notifications when new arrival news is delivered. It seems that it is also possible to select news of a specific genre from "station". We are planning to partner with 2 or 3 news media when releasing the application.

In addition, the news distributor can create custom notifications for mobile when news news are delivered, and the followers can confirm the informants different from the publisher. Up to 100 letters of notification letter can be attached separately URL. Up to 1 news can be delivered per notification.

The screenshot below shows a sample screen when the media side creates a notification, and the notification includes the station (news genre), sub station (sub genre), notification text and URL.


In June 2015, "Facebook plans to distribute dozens of articles a day to Facebook news feed in collaboration with news sites such as The New York Times and the Atlantic,"Announcementwas doing. For new apps reported this time, Facebook will refrain from comments.

Twitter, on the other hand, "Project Lightning" to organize information such as photos and videos about events such as sports and moviesin progressIt is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2015.

In the United States, Twitter and Facebook are growing as news information sources, and it was held in March 2015InvestigationAccording to 2013, the proportion of people who are receiving news via SNS is increasing both in Twitter and Facebook.


Also, the percentage of users over the age of 18 is 66% higher on Facebook than 17% on Twitter, and the percentage of people who are getting news on SNS out of users over the age of 18 You are getting higher.