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Twitter testing new ‘News’ tab feature in its mobile app
TT Correspondent |  |  04 Aug 2015

Twitter is testing a new ‘News’ tab feature in its mobile app, currently live in the US and Japan. As reported by BuzzFeed, the new Twitter feature includes a list of trending news stories along with their headlines means showing the news story with an image and also the top tweet section below the story.

A Twitter spokesperson in a statement told BuzzFeed, "We're experimenting with a news experience on iOS and Android as we continue to explore new ways to surface the best content to users."

However, this is an experimental feature and not all users will access to it. Those few who can find the new News tab in the middle of their Twitter app’s bottom row of icons.

The experiment, which is already live in Japan and is starting out with a list of pre-approved publishers. But there is no time-frame provided as to when this feature will be available.

In addition, Twitter has also added four new Indian languages namely, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil, to web as well as its Android app.

    
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