Twitter Moments just got even easier to use
Twitter Moments just got a whole lot easier to make.
The feature that lets Twitter users collect and curate tweets into one scrollable (on desktop) or swipeable (on mobile) feed is now available on mobile, the company announced on Wednesday.
Aptly, Twitter created a Moment to explain the process of building one.
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Users can access the feature by choosing a tweet and clicking on the gray arrow in the upper right-hand corner. A pop-up window will appear with a tab that reads "Add to Moment."
Twitter Moments (previously codenamed "Lightning") launched in October 2015, shortly after the return of Jack Dorsey as CEO of the company he helped build nine years prior.
At launch, only select publishers and Twitter's own team of curators could access the feature. Since then, Twitter expanded Moments to advertisers, and in September it opened up Moments to anyone on the service.
For example, former Twitter employee Mark Ghuneim created a Moment following the company's layoffs in October. Another popular feed was titled "Day 1 in Trump's America."
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While Twitter has let go of other products in the last year -- most notably its six-second-video app Vine -- the company has been doubling down on Moments. Its team has gone from building 20-30 per day to up to 250.
"Based on what we’ve seen this year, I think it’s the foundation of a lot more fantastic work for making Twitter the best news outlet on the planet," Andrew Fitzgerald, Twitter's director of curation, told Mashable earlier this month.
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Kerry Flynn is a business reporter for Mashable covering the tech industry. She previously reported on social media companies, mobile apps and startups for International Business Times. She has also written for The Huffington Post, Forbes and Money magazine. Kerry studied environmental science and economics at Harvard College, where she led The Harvard Crimson's metro news and design teams and played mellophone in the Band. When not listening to startup pitches, she runs half-marathons, plays with puppies and pretends to like craft beer.