Facebook may soon be sending you breaking news alerts
Many people get their news from their Facebook feed, but Facebook themselves don’t actually tell you what is going on. That may change as Facebook is said to be making a new app that will send you breaking news directly to your mobile device.
The new app is still in the early stages of development, but the way it will work is by asking users what news topics they want to receive. Whenever some big news story is currently breaking in one of your selected topics an alert will be sent out. The alert will be similar to a Twitter message as it is only up to 100 characters. Anything that interest you, you can click the link to read more. Currently there are only a select few news publications that are available.
The app is very new and still in alpha testing. There is no word on when it will be released.
Source: Business Insider
Via: The Verge
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